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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
MD
Jul 19, 2020
Excellent all around, particularly the section on crowdfunding and innovations in credit scoring!
KM
Apr 19, 2021
it a important course i have more information about business finsncing
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By Lucrecia
•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.