Start-ups can benefit from a wide variety of financing options on the path to profitability, but how do you know which one to choose? This course explores different financing models, including bootstrapping, organic growth, debt and risk capital, and also provides a clear overview of equity financing including the key types of investors: angels, venture capital, and crowdfunding. You’ll learn about terms, and term sheets, exit modes and what exit strategy might be best for you. By the end of this course, you’ll have an understanding of what success looks like and how it can be financed. You’ll also be ready for the capstone project, in which you will get feedback on your own pitch deck, and may even be selected to pitch to investors from venture capital firms.
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship Specialization
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Skills you will gain
- Venture Capital
- Exit Strategy
- Finance
- Entrepreneurship
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Business Models and Keeping Customers
Financing, Valuation, and Terms
Private and Public Financing, and Calculating Breakeven
Elements of the Pitch and Exit Strategies
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TOP REVIEWS FROM ENTREPRENEURSHIP 4: FINANCING AND PROFITABILITY
A 360 journey through entrepreneurship. Some lessons very easy to follow, others too packed with info and a rhythm that could be easier. Very grateful.
Love this course, especially in planning a new start-up. I can take these lessons and incorporate them into my planning process. That is precisely what I'm going to do.
I have always been in start up business, and I deal with these everyday, and yet I still learned plenty from this course. Many thanks to all the professors. :)
Lot off myths about the finances were cleared in this course. The quizes were also good.
Thank you professors for the valuable inputs.
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