Duke University - Financing for Startup Businesses
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Financing for Startup Businesses at Coursera Overview
Duration | 7 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Financing for Startup Businesses at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 2 of 4 in the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Intermediate Level
- Approx. 7 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Financing for Startup Businesses at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Financing for Startup Businesses at Coursera Curriculum
Raising Capital from Venture Investors
Introduction
Preferred Equity
Capitalization Tables Part 1
Capitalization Tables Part 2
Capitalization Tables Part 3
Capitalization Tables Part 4
Capitalization Table Spreadsheet
Raising Capital from Venture Investors Graded Quiz
Exiting Venture Investments
Exiting VC Investment
Scenario I video and Case 1
Scenario II video and Case 2
Scenario III video and Case 3
Scenario IV video and Case 4
Wrap-up
Exiting Venture Investments Graded Quiz
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
Introduction to Peer to Peer Lending
Peer to Peer Lending: General Setup
Issues and Reasons for Platforms to Morph
The Advent of Reintermediation
Reintermediation and the Entry of Institutions
Other Kinds of Crowdfunding
Equity Based Crowdfunding
Rewards Based Crowdfunding
Adverse Incentives in Crowdfunding
Reintermediation in FinTech: Evidence from Online Lending
Kickstarter Projects
Spotlight on Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding Graded Quiz
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints
Credit Bureau Scores
Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints
Defining a "Bare Bones" Digital Footprint
Digital Footprints and Credit Bureau Scores
Does the Digital Footprint Predict Future Credit Scores?
Cases of Companies Using Digital Footprints
FICO Score
On the rise of FinTechs - Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints
UltraFICO
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints Graded Quiz
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