It's a great course in terms of giving any whose interested in the basics & slightly more technical aspects of VC, startup valuation and financial modelling. I would suggest that candidates give it 2-3 revisions before attempting quizzes as they can get tricky! Overall great course! To some of the lecturers, i would suggest they be revised, specifically for Week 3 & Week 4 as I found the lecturers to rush a little too fast past the more technical topics.

Certain Concepts could be explained more clearly by walking through the calculations. Specifically to Week 3 - Option Pool. Self learning lead to Cap-Table method which is much easier way to calculate and understand option pools, but then numeric answers don't match. Walking through and example and clearly specifying the assumptions will be helpful.

The course itself is valuable, however, at some point, additional explanation is lacking and would be of great importance. (Week 2-3)

Covered some very useful and interesting concepts that are applicable to the VC industry. However, the content and teaching of week 3 are confusing and inconsistent unlike week 1 and 2. In particular, the option pool and required equity stake calculations were poorly explained and there are inconsistencies with what was taught, the practice quiz, and the graded quiz when it came to dilution effects.

Course material is very poorly explained beginning in Week 3. Examples are not completed. Quiz questions reference material not taught during the lectures. And examples that are completed either skip over important calculations or are better explained in forums and sub-reddits.

This course is a bit technical. For me, a lot of concepts and calculation in week 3 and week 4 are poorly or insufficiently explained. It required a lot of thinking and logical reasoning before arriving to the answers in the quiz.

The first two weeks were well made but the second two weeks were often sparsely explained. The quiz in the middle of the first week has material not covered by that point. The discussion of option pools was far too limited.

This course gives an good idea "How Startup valuations differ from mature companies and terminologies and methods used among VC markets and Angel investors. Sill week 3 and 4 could be more extensive and collaborative

The general concepts were pretty good and well presented, but there were errors in the lecture slides and I found some of the concepts difficult to understand from what they presented.

In Option pool and Anti-dilution lessons the calculations were not explained in details. One had to go to third-party sites like investopedia to have an understanding.

I personally felt that the concept required to answer questions in the quizzes were not suitably addressed in the video lectures.

In general a good course, but the quiz part was difficult as some questions did not match to what has been teached before.

Week 3 is very important however overall the classes were not very clear with a lot of exercise uncomplicated .

week 3 and 4 were not as good as week 1 and 2. slides contained errors and some obnoxious gotcha questions.

Very useful information, but the quizzes were very difficult and you only had 1 attempt every 24 hours...

Videos are confusing on lots of places and there is not enough reading material provided.

Good but practical problems are beyond the material which was taught during the lectures.

Many classes are not clear enough or require more explanation.

First two weeks are way better than last two weeks.

Week 3 very unclear

First part is very valuable. Second part really unclear

The Course suffers from lack of in-depth explanation

I enjoyed the course, the lectures were kept short and precise. The notes contained all the important information and summarised well, and most importantly as an entrepreneur, the course detailed on each aspect I am currently focussed on. What I did find uncomfortable was that it was based on the perspective of VC's and Angel Investors, I often found the lectures being a bit insensitive on the sentiment of an entrepreneur. I am not sure if you would have received such a review before, but honestly, this is the only thing that made me a bit uncomfortable in this then otherwise amazing course. Thanks!

Great course; would like to finish the specialisation if I had the funds; Would recommend to anyone. Had a great deal of fun while learning a great deal, too! I liked most how some of the answers weren't spoon-fed to us; some of the answers are hidden. There are concepts and formulations that we are expected to pick up on-the-fly, but that only adds to the value that you can earn from picking up this course. Would definitely run through this course in 3 months or so just to refresh; these concepts seem super foundational to company valuation; it kinda makes me wish I had a degree in finance...

Good to improve knowledge in venture capital. Suitable for VC investors who want to learn valuation methods e.g comparative/ DCF, etc. Extremely informative. Content clearly recorded and concept easy to understand. Brief legal knowledge taught as well regarding types of securities a startup can offer angel investors, and calculations regarding option pool, anti-dilution measures. Improvements: providing working solutions to quiz.