Learner Reviews & Feedback for Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability by University of Pennsylvania

This is a very frustrating course to review – on the one hand, there is a lot of good information here. On the other hand, it is incredibly, incredibly poorly presented. The lectures are all over the place in quality and organization. The slides are an absolute mess of information design and are really hard to follow. I also have no idea what audience they had in mind for this course – they claim back in Entrepreneurship 1 that this is an introductory course without prerequisites, but in practice they don't explain a lot of concepts they introduce in this course either at all or very well (including things like, accounting and financial statements, ratio analysis, breakeven calculation – just off the top of my head). If I hadn't already taken a few courses elsewhere on accounting and corporate finance, I could see myself being pretty lost here.

Much to my own surprise, I've found the entrepreneurship and financial courses on LinkedIn Learning (RIP Lynda.com) to be much, much better presented and more compellingly taught than these Wharton courses, they just aren't quite as comprehensive or densely packed as these Entrepreneurship courses. There's definitely value here, but it requires a lot more effort from me as a student to push through the mediocre teaching to get to it. If you've ever taken a lecture class at a research university with a professor renowned for their research but *not* their teaching ability, then you already know what you're in for here.

Good for everybody who wants to understand main steps for an entrepreneur.

thanks

Provides good overview and do's & don'ts of financing for first time entrepreneurs

Excellent Information! Very practical.

Good course!

Thanks to all the team

very useful tools are discussed

Interesting Course, lot of great example shared in the lecture.

Very good information to keep in mind when planing a business to be sustainable!!

Thank you, Useful course

It was a great experience.

Thank u so much for this opportunity.

Great Course

Thank you

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. :)

The class would have been better if the financing options/strategies had been further categorized according to different stages of development of the startup. I liked most of the content. Nevertheless, speaking of issues like IPO and several stages of funding did not seem relevant to a great majority of startups, at least for early stage ones. (As figures demonstrated in the class, many failed and the mostly adopted early stage funding options is from family & friends).

Anyway, it really was a great class, intense, interesting and important in entrepreneurship! Thank you!

Great, enjoy a lot

Lot off myths about the finances were cleared in this course. The quizes were also good.

Thank you professors for the valuable inputs.

Great course!

I love it

Excellent material !

Excellent!

Excellent course. Brilliant use of real business case scenarios to help illustrate the theories and concepts. But more importantly this course was taught by exceptional well talented instructors, and thus making the course very interesting. Thank you all

Really enjoyed how the professors touched on many different avenues of financing.

One again a wonderful and informative course. Being a former Wall Street veteran, I thought I know almost everything and these Professor taught me so much in such detail. Now I know everything!!! HaHa..almost! Thank you Wharton!

Concise and to the point - this course was very engaging. Look forward to the Capstone Project where I can put all that I learned into practice