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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Financing for Startup Businesses by Duke University

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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

KM

Apr 19, 2021

it a important course i have more information about business finsncing

MD

Jul 19, 2020

Excellent all around, particularly the section on crowdfunding and innovations in credit scoring!

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By Evgenii V

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Mar 5, 2023

1. Poorest presentation skills; 2. Most of the information is not relevant to real-world application; 3. Simple calculations of Cap Table were explained in very complicated way. The excel attached for Cap Table was made with hard numbers and doesn't show share flows from round to round; P.S. Even free course of PE/VC from University of Bocconi has much more value than this course..

By Lucrecia

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Aug 8, 2025

Unfortunately, I found the explanations on these subjects lacking in clarity and detail. The concepts were not well-articulated, leaving me with more questions than answers. Additionally, the slides used during the presentation were not clear. The content seemed disorganized, and key points were either missing or not highlighted effectively.