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.

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Excellent Information! Very practical.

Good course!

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

Thanks to all the team

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

It was a great experience.

Thank u so much for this opportunity.

Woo! I feel great about taking these courses.

This is very useful with the

Great Course !

Aspirant Entrepreneurs many times make mistakes in the Innovative companies financial planning, This is great Course to Think about Financial Health of the startup and avoid Serious, OUT of CASH mistakes ...

Excellent wrap up of do's and don'ts.

i really enjoy this course, opened my eyes to a new form to evolution my busiiness

Great learning !

Great and Excellent thoughts and course material.

Great insight! I learnt a whole lot. The tutor were great.

Really liked the Pitch and Executive Summary section

Highlighted the fact that I need more accounting lessons but this was a great overview.

Excellent. Just what I needed.

Probably the best course, although a bit short in content. I learnt a lot from it, thank you!

Great insights into the financial aspects of a start up.

I only can repeat my review of the past three coursers: excellent! Would do it ANY time again. Congratulations for this great course.

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. :)

Amazing course one the best available :)

All the professors are experts and have huge experience in their field every word they speak is valuable.