This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies for your startup company and determine which financing decisions are best for your entrepreneurial venture. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance entrepreneurial ventures. These include different forms of crowdfunding, and alternative credit scoring mechanisms based on web-based data.
This course is part of the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization
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- Startup Company
- Microsoft Excel
- Venture Capital Financing
- Venture Capital
- Finance
Flexible deadlines
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Coursera Labs
Includes hands on learning projects.
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Intermediate Level
Approx. 6 hours to complete
English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Raising Capital from Venture Investors
1 hour to complete
6 videos (Total 38 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
1 hour to complete
Exiting Venture Investments
1 hour to complete
6 videos (Total 45 min)
2 hours to complete
Crowdfunding
2 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 58 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints
2 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 53 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
Reviews
- 5 stars66.66%
- 4 stars21.53%
- 3 stars8.20%
- 2 stars3.58%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FINANCING FOR STARTUP BUSINESSES
by DDOct 3, 2020
1 time in 24hour is too long could shorten the time to retake tests
by AAJul 1, 2020
Its very useful to us....i learn much in this course..
by XCSep 11, 2020
Excellent professors and content quality. Very satisfied!
by AAApr 20, 2021
It is good course and importance for any one want to be entrepreneur and help perform best.
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