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.
Ce cours fait partie de la Spécialisation Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation
Financing for Startup Businesses
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Raising Capital from Venture Investors
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.
1 heure pour terminer
6 vidéos (Total 38 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
6 vidéos
Introduction2 min
Preferred Equity14 min
Capitalization Tables Part 16 min
Capitalization Tables Part 24 min
Capitalization Tables Part 33 min
Capitalization Tables Part 46 min
1 lecture
Capitalization Table Spreadsheet10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Raising Capital from Venture Investors Graded Quiz20 min
1 heure pour terminer
Exiting Venture Investments
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.
1 heure pour terminer
6 vidéos (Total 45 min)
6 vidéos
Exiting VC Investment10 min
Scenario I video and Case 17 min
Scenario II video and Case 24 min
Scenario III video and Case 35 min
Scenario IV video and Case 413 min
Wrap-up2 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Exiting Venture Investments Graded Quiz24 min
2 heures pour terminer
Crowdfunding
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.
2 heures pour terminer
9 vidéos (Total 58 min), 4 lectures, 1 quiz
9 vidéos
Crowdfunding5 min
Introduction to Peer to Peer Lending6 min
Peer to Peer Lending: General Setup6 min
Issues and Reasons for Platforms to Morph4 min
The Advent of Reintermediation6 min
Reintermediation and the Entry of Institutions8 min
Other Kinds of Crowdfunding2 min
Equity Based Crowdfunding9 min
Rewards Based Crowdfunding8 min
4 lectures
Adverse Incentives in Crowdfunding15 min
Reintermediation in FinTech: Evidence from Online Lending15 min
Kickstarter Projects15 min
Spotlight on Crowdfunding15 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Crowdfunding Graded Quiz24 min
2 heures pour terminer
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints
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.
2 heures pour terminer
6 vidéos (Total 53 min), 3 lectures, 1 quiz
6 vidéos
Credit Bureau Scores5 min
Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints8 min
Defining a "Bare Bones" Digital Footprint11 min
Digital Footprints and Credit Bureau Scores10 min
Does the Digital Footprint Predict Future Credit Scores?10 min
Cases of Companies Using Digital Footprints6 min
3 lectures
FICO Score15 min
On the rise of FinTechs - Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints15 min
UltraFICO15 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints Graded Quiz20 min
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par DDMar 15, 2020
Great course! Helped a lot in preparation for a VC interview!
À propos de Université Duke
Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
À propos du Spécialisation Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation
From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization provides an opportunity for you to learn how to advance business innovation in your company and gain insights from leading faculty in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
In the first course, you will learn how to valuate entrepreneurial ventures—including high-growth startups—using Excel spreadsheet models. You will also learn how to discern between the tradeoffs of different financing strategies: loan investments, venture capital, angel investing, and crowdfunding.
The second 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.
The third course transitions to an analysis of blockchain technologies, where you will learn how to identify opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models using blockchain as well as avoid poorly executed applications of blockchain to business.
The fourth course will teach you how to use R programming to calculate the return of a stock portfolio as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio.
This Specialization is also an excellent opportunity for professionals interested in Fuqua’s master’s programs to get an inside look into Fuqua’s faculty expertise and courses.
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