Financing for Startup Businesses

Financing for Startup Businesses

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

Instructors: Manju Puri

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Intermediate level

Some related experience required

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

217 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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Microsoft Excel

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Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

This 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. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance entrepreneurial ventures. These include different forms of crowdfunding, and alternative credit scoring mechanisms based on web-based data.

This course concludes with a module featuring cutting edge research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business on the financial technology industry. In this module, you will learn how financial technology companies are disrupting the credit scoring industry by developing new methods for credit scoring using consumers’ digital footprints. In addition, you will explore how financial technology platforms have introduced new, experimental forms of financing, such as crowdfunding.

This module explores the securities that venture investors use when they invest in startups, and how the dynamic nature of fundraising creates complex ownership structures.

What's included

6 videos2 readings1 assignment

6 videos Total 38 minutes

Introduction 2 minutes
Preferred Equity 15 minutes
Capitalization Tables Part 1 7 minutes
Capitalization Tables Part 2 4 minutes
Capitalization Tables Part 3 4 minutes
Capitalization Tables Part 4 6 minutes

2 readings Total 15 minutes

Report a problem with the course 5 minutes
Capitalization Table Spreadsheet 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 20 minutes

Raising Capital from Venture Investors Graded Quiz 20 minutes

Venture investors generate returns for their investors by selling their portfolio companies, either to strategic buyer, to other private equity investors, or by listing them as publicly traded firms. This module explores how the proceeds from these liquidation events are distributed among the different investors based on the terms of their investments.

What's included

6 videos1 assignment

This module examines different kinds of crowdfunding. We start with peer-to-peer lending to understand the setup in its early days and evolution, and then examine equity crowdfunding and rewards based crowdfunding.

What's included

9 videos4 readings1 assignment

9 videos Total 58 minutes

Crowdfunding 6 minutes
Introduction to Peer to Peer Lending 6 minutes
Peer to Peer Lending: General Setup 7 minutes
Issues and Reasons for Platforms to Morph 4 minutes
The Advent of Reintermediation 7 minutes
Reintermediation and the Entry of Institutions 8 minutes
Other Kinds of Crowdfunding 2 minutes
Equity Based Crowdfunding 10 minutes
Rewards Based Crowdfunding 8 minutes

4 readings Total 60 minutes

Adverse Incentives in Crowdfunding 15 minutes
Reintermediation in FinTech: Evidence from Online Lending 15 minutes
Kickstarter Projects 15 minutes
Spotlight on Crowdfunding 15 minutes

1 assignment Total 24 minutes

Crowdfunding Graded Quiz 24 minutes

This module examines credit scoring through the traditional means of credit bureau scores and then looks at new ways of doing credit scoring through a simple digital footprint.

What's included

6 videos4 readings1 assignment

6 videos Total 53 minutes

Credit Bureau Scores 6 minutes
Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints 9 minutes
Defining a "Bare Bones" Digital Footprint 11 minutes
Digital Footprints and Credit Bureau Scores 11 minutes
Does the Digital Footprint Predict Future Credit Scores? 11 minutes
Cases of Companies Using Digital Footprints 6 minutes

4 readings Total 55 minutes

FICO Score 15 minutes
On the rise of FinTechs - Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints 15 minutes
UltraFICO 15 minutes
Share your learning experience 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 20 minutes

Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints Graded Quiz 20 minutes

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Reviewed on Apr 19, 2021

it a important course i have more information about business finsncing

Reviewed on Sep 11, 2020

Excellent professors and content quality. Very satisfied!

Reviewed on Apr 23, 2020

Very insightful, in terms of using new sources of founding for start-ups and to understand the distribution of shares, money in different series or in company exiting.

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