This course is part of the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

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How do different types of investors think about an investment opportunity? What kind of securities and contracts do they offer? How should a company decide what is a "good deal"? This course is designed to introduce you to the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. You will learn the basic tools for valuating companies, including using discounted cashflow analysis in Excel and understanding how to apply this model to your entrepreneurial venture. You will then learn how valuation works with different types of securities that investors use to finance startups, from bank loans to venture capital to angel investing.

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Valuation (Finance)
Startup Company
Cash Flow Analysis
Entrepreneurship
Finance

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Manuel Adelino

Associate Professor, Finance

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

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David Robinson

Professor of Finance and James and Gail Vander Weide Professor

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

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Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

The Basics of Valuation

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 47 min)

1 hour to complete

Building your First Excel Valuation Model

1 hour to complete

10 videos (Total 60 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

10 videos

Discounted Cash Flow Valuation4mIncome Statement: Revenues6mIncome Statement: Other Items5mIncome Statement: Depreciation9mIncome Statement: Complete the Calcs4mIncome Statement: Working Capital6mIncome Statement: Free Cash Flows7mAssumption of Future Growth5mPresent Value of Cash Flows5mMarket Value of Assets4m

1 reading

Kale and Kombucha10m

1 practice exercise

Building your First Excel Valuation Model Graded Quiz10m

Week2

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Valuation of High-growth Startups

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 27 min)

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Venture Capital Overview

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 67 min)

9 videos

Introduction to Financing Options for Entrepreneurial Ventures7mUnderstanding Debt7mVenture Capital9mWhat is a VC Investor? VC Funds7mHow VCs Value Businesses7mThe VC Method8mTerm Sheets5mOption Pool5mUnderstanding Anti-Dilution7m

10 practice exercises

Introduction to Financing Options for Entrepreneurial Ventures4mUnderstanding Debt8mVenture Capital8mVC Funds6mHow Do VCs Value Businesses8mThe VC Method14mTerm Sheets8mOption Pool8mUnderstanding Anti-Dilution6mVenture Capital Overview Graded Quiz24m

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Angel Investor Overview

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 18 min)

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TOP REVIEWS FROM STARTUP VALUATION METHODS

by OCMay 3, 2021

Great course overall. I particularly enjoyed week 1 and 2 on start-up valuation tools, the professor was very articulate. Week 3 and 4 slides were not always optimal.

by DDApr 29, 2020

The course provides fundamental financial skills needed for a startup. It takes time to understand certain concepts but it is highly valuable what you learn here.

by JLJan 18, 2022

Information was useful, but wish the professors walked through the examples (showed the math on the slide). The math was hard to follow along in the 2nd half of the course!

by GMMay 13, 2020

Week 3 could be improved, the lecturer was not specific with certain valuation formulas thus creating a lot of confusion. Other than that, great course. Thanks!

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About the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization provides an opportunity for you to learn how to advance business innovation in your company and gain insights from leading faculty in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

In the first course, you will learn how to valuate entrepreneurial ventures—including high-growth startups—using Excel spreadsheet models. You will also learn how to discern between the tradeoffs of different financing strategies: loan investments, venture capital, angel investing, and crowdfunding. The second 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. The third course transitions to an analysis of blockchain technologies, where you will learn how to identify opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models using blockchain as well as avoid poorly executed applications of blockchain to business. The fourth course will teach you how to use R programming to calculate the return of a stock portfolio as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio. This Specialization is also an excellent opportunity for professionals interested in Fuqua’s master’s programs to get an inside look into Fuqua’s faculty expertise and courses.

Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation

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