This course will teach you how to manage a startup鈥檚 financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or 鈥渃ap tables鈥�) 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鈥檚 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鈥� digital footprints. In addition, you will explore how financial technology platforms have introduced new, experimental forms of financing, such as crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding
Skills You'll Learn
Venture Capital, Venture Capital Financing, Investment Management, Entrepreneurship, Startup Company, FinTech, Finance, Microsoft Excel
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4.5 (207 ratings)
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DD
Apr 30, 2020
The concepts are high level for who are not from financial background. But by going through the lectures more often you can learn the concepts.
NZ
Nov 15, 2020
Very informative and back you up with proper qualifications for the the valuation landscape of the startups and new businesses
From the lesson
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.
Taught By
Manju Puri
J. B. Fuqua Professor
David Robinson
Professor of Finance and James and Gail Vander Weide Professor