This module examines the financial logic of a new venture. Learners study unit economics, cost structure, cash flow, pricing, and financial projections to assess whether a business model is economically viable. The module also shows how to use financial models to identify key assumptions, test scenarios, and communicate a venture’s economic story to investors and other stakeholders.

This module examines how ventures are financed and how financing choices shape the venture itself. Learners study equity investment, term sheets, valuation, fundraising dynamics, and alternative financing paths such as bootstrapping, debt, crowdfunding, grants, and hybrid instruments. The module also explores who gets funded, how race, gender, and geography affect access to capital, how AI and collapsing costs are changing the financing landscape, and how to think like an investor.

This module explores how ventures grow, scale, and eventually exit. Learners examine different growth trajectories, the operational demands of building a repeatable engine, organizational culture, the founder’s evolving role, founder-CEO fit, venture exit paths, and the meaning of success in entrepreneurship.