Entrepreneurial Finance - Strategy and Innovation, Short Course | Part time online | Coursera | United States
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About

From entrepreneurs to executives, this Entrepreneurial Finance - Strategy and Innovation Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with Duke University 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. 

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Overview

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 Entrepreneurial Finance - Strategy and Innovation Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with Duke University 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.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will learn how to valuate entrepreneurial ventures, build capitalization tables and explore different financing strategies for your startup company, identify opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models using blockchain, and use R programming to calculate the return of a stock portfolio.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Startup Valuation Methods

  • Financing for Startup Businesses

  • Blockchain Business Models

  • Financial Risk Management with R

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 4 months
    • 2 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online
  • Self-paced

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Intermediate Level

  • You need a foundational understanding of finance and some experience working with the R programming language.

Tuition Fee

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  • National

    Free
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Funding

Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project.

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