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About the Course

Who? If you’re an entrepreneur at any stage of your journey, or even an aspiring one, and you need money to start or grow your business, this course is for you. What? This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more. Sadly, though, the five models are rarely talked about and not widely understood. Until now! The five models will be brought to life by the real-world stories of an inspiring collection of incredibly creative entrepreneurs from around the world – including successes and failures – through a series of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with founders and others, and investors, too. Why? More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VC’s, business angels, incubators, and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for very good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they’ve delivered to their investors and the incredibly large and valuable companies their ecosystem has created. But the vast majority of fast growing companies never take any angel or venture funding. Are they onto something that most of today’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has missed? Indeed, should a business angel or VC be seen as the first port of call for getting your nascent entrepreneurial venture off the ground or growing it faster? Perhaps not. How? You’ll be asked to do a series of exercises – out in the real world – to put your growing toolkit to use in your business or the one you hope to start. Hands-on, practical tools to help your business start and thrive – without venture capital. You’ll join our discussion board of fellow participants, if you like, and learn from others who are putting the tools to work, just as you are. And to suit today’s fast-paced lifestyles, we’ve broken what you’ll get – short lessons, interviews, thought-provoking questions, even some optional things to read – into bite-sized chunks, so you can log in and grab them whenever and wherever you are. And what else? If, after checking out and perhaps completing this course, you find your company in a position where seeking venture capital turns out to be the right thing to do next, John Mullins leads an inspiring and hands-on executive education course at London Business School – this one face-to-face – called Financing the Entrepreneurial Business. There, among a room full of investors and entrepreneurs, you’ll study a series of captivating real-world cases and learn everything an entrepreneur – or an investor, for that matter – needs to know to handle the person who sits across the deal table and take an entrepreneurial business from start-up to exit. See https://www.london.edu/education-and-development/executive-education/topic/finance/financing-the-entrepreneurial-business#.WIVY_FyTQ-0 for info....

Top reviews

NV

Oct 13, 2016

Great course with lots of interviews from entrepreneurs and VC professionals. Great insight from real-life cases.

VC

Apr 20, 2023

Am glad I took this course it has been a wonderful experience. Thank you for making this course available.

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By Pablo P

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Jul 9, 2017

Exceptional. Very good and complete, and easy to take.

By Partha S

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Sep 7, 2016

classic content and methodology. Inspiring Lect'ures.

By Umair N A Q

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Feb 28, 2017

Excellent course so far, right course about Finance.

By Pauline P

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Apr 19, 2016

This is a world class course. Thank you very much.

By TYA H

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Nov 4, 2020

This is a great course. Thanks for the knowledge.

By godman o

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Jun 6, 2021

This is one of the great Enterprenureship course

By Nikhilesh T

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May 1, 2016

Fantastic course. A must for every entrepreneur.

By SYED J

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Jun 21, 2020

very informative and easy understandable course

By Abdul R

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Mar 14, 2018

It is a "must course" for every entrepreneur.

By Deleted A

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Jun 18, 2021

It was an eye opener. Very interesting topic

By Kanan A

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Jan 29, 2017

Great course. I really liked the professor.

By Alexandru G

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Feb 7, 2019

Great insights from this course. Excelent!

By Juan G

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Aug 8, 2016

Best course for entrepreneurs ever made!

By Kennedy K

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May 1, 2022

Eye opening and very much informative.

By Sergey P

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Jun 12, 2017

Excellent course with practical cases!

By omar m a s

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Jun 25, 2016

Curso genial, altamente recomendable

By Yogesh k D

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Jun 17, 2020

great course ...quite a bit lengthy

By Tasneem S

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May 18, 2016

excellent awesome course eye opener

By Prasanna S

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Feb 11, 2017

Great Course. Very informative.

By Bernardo F

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Apr 1, 2021

Excellent! Extremely useful.

By Sanjay R

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Apr 16, 2016

Dr. Mullins is inspiring!

By Mehdi A

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Oct 21, 2016

Excellent! Great info!

By D

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Oct 1, 2018

Amazing information!

By Roshan M

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Jan 20, 2024

Very Good training!

By sajjad

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Sep 26, 2017

its really awesome