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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.

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Approx. 7 hours to complete

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Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

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Startup Company
Microsoft Excel
Venture Capital Financing
Venture Capital
Finance

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Course 2 of 4 in the

Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

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Manju Puri

J. B. Fuqua Professor

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

9,817 Learners

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David Robinson

Professor of Finance and James and Gail Vander Weide Professor

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

35,233 Learners

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

1 hour to complete

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 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 38 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week

Week 2

1 hour to complete

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 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 45 min)

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

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 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 58 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

9 videos

Crowdfunding5m

Introduction to Peer to Peer Lending6m

Peer to Peer Lending: General Setup6m

Issues and Reasons for Platforms to Morph4m

The Advent of Reintermediation6m

Reintermediation and the Entry of Institutions8m

Other Kinds of Crowdfunding2m

Equity Based Crowdfunding9m

Rewards Based Crowdfunding8m

4 readings

Adverse Incentives in Crowdfunding15m

Reintermediation in FinTech: Evidence from Online Lending15m

Kickstarter Projects15m

Spotlight on Crowdfunding15m

1 practice exercise

Crowdfunding Graded Quiz24m

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

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 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 53 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

6 videos

Credit Bureau Scores5m

Credit Scoring Using Digital Footprints8m

Defining a "Bare Bones" Digital Footprint11m

Digital Footprints and Credit Bureau Scores10m

Does the Digital Footprint Predict Future Credit Scores?10m

Cases of Companies Using Digital Footprints6m

3 readings

FICO Score15m

On the rise of FinTechs - Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints15m

UltraFICO15m

1 practice exercise

Credit Scoring Through Digital Footprints Graded Quiz20m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM FINANCING FOR STARTUP BUSINESSES

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About the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

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.

Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation

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