This course is part of the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

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How do different types of investors think about an investment opportunity? What kind of securities and contracts do they offer? How should a company decide what is a "good deal"? This course is designed to introduce you to the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. You will learn the basic tools for valuating companies, including using discounted cashflow analysis in Excel and understanding how to apply this model to your entrepreneurial venture. You will then learn how valuation works with different types of securities that investors use to finance startups, from bank loans to venture capital to angel investing.

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Valuation (Finance)
Startup Company
Cash Flow Analysis
Entrepreneurship
Finance

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Intermediate Level

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Manuel Adelino

Associate Professor, Finance

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

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David Robinson

Professor of Finance and James and Gail Vander Weide Professor

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

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Week

Week 1

1 hour to complete

The Basics of Valuation

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 47 min)

1 hour to complete

Building your First Excel Valuation Model

1 hour to complete

10 videos (Total 60 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

10 videos

Discounted Cash Flow Valuation4m

Income Statement: Revenues6m

Income Statement: Other Items5m

Income Statement: Depreciation9m

Income Statement: Complete the Calcs4m

Income Statement: Working Capital6m

Income Statement: Free Cash Flows7m

Assumption of Future Growth5m

Present Value of Cash Flows5m

Market Value of Assets4m

1 reading

Kale and Kombucha10m

1 practice exercise

Building your First Excel Valuation Model Graded Quiz10m

Week

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Valuation of High-growth Startups

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 27 min)

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Venture Capital Overview

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 67 min)

9 videos

Introduction to Financing Options for Entrepreneurial Ventures7m

Understanding Debt7m

Venture Capital9m

What is a VC Investor? VC Funds7m

How VCs Value Businesses7m

The VC Method8m

Term Sheets5m

Option Pool5m

Understanding Anti-Dilution7m

10 practice exercises

Introduction to Financing Options for Entrepreneurial Ventures4m

Understanding Debt8m

Venture Capital8m

VC Funds6m

How Do VCs Value Businesses8m

The VC Method14m

Term Sheets8m

Option Pool8m

Understanding Anti-Dilution6m

Venture Capital Overview Graded Quiz24m

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Angel Investor Overview

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 18 min)

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TOP REVIEWS FROM STARTUP VALUATION METHODS

by DDApr 29, 2020

The course provides fundamental financial skills needed for a startup. It takes time to understand certain concepts but it is highly valuable what you learn here.

by DIMar 11, 2020

The course gives structured knowledge about the startup valuation methods. I enjoyed it, and now it's time to go for deep diving into the startup valuation industry.

by FPJan 3, 2021

I work in this space and still managed to discover more techniques that I had not known or poorly understood. Definitely a must for those interested in VC investing.

by BMMay 19, 2020

this is an excellent course for the beginners who want to learn startup valuation without having much prior knowledge about finance world

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About the Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization

From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization 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.

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 Specialization 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.

Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation

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