A handful of useful insights and hands-on practices, really appreciate this great course! I found it especially helpful when Manuel guided us step-by-step to create a startup spreadsheet. David's courses however required more self-research or 'after school' study, but it provided a clear framework of the startup investors' world, and made me want to explore it more.

Overall I give it 5 stars the least, thank you!

Great course, some improvements: there should be an explanation and more help in the graded quizzes to make them not just tools for evaluation, but for learning; I also do not see the purpose in the 24 hour delay to retake graded quizzes, working people need to have their time availability recognized and in 24 hours you might be on a plane to Singapore for a week of work! Otherwise, all good.

Great course. Actually practical for my job (I work in venture capital). I'm using these methods right now to value industry categories and current deal flow. Week 3 & 4 will definitely be harder for those who don't work in venture. Lots of tricky questions, good luck.

Necessary information about Venture Capital and Angel investors terminology and tools, without detail. Suitable to get acquainted with the topic, but would require further training in corporate finance to prepare a calculation of startup valuation in practice.

The course I really nice. The content is top-notch and explains very good concepts and instead of predictions it makes precise calculations. I personally believe it applies to both investors and entrepreneurs, as both benefit from the calculations explained.

It was worth the time and money invested. The concepts were clear and useful. Important to note that several of the students do not work in the USA. Some comments and evaluations can be further standardized. Feedback process for final exams can be improved.

I recommend this course to all those looking to be thoroughly confused by valuation, It was a good experience to work through the calculation problems. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be going through more of Duke University courses on coursera.

Simple and straightforward tutorials. Need a little bit more illustration in calculations on topics like Option Pools, Anti Dilution, valuation etc. This will help in getting better clarity on the theory and get to a clearer understanding.

Un cours très instructif. Il est venu ajouter des connaissances pointues dans le domaine d'évaluation de startup qui seront sûrement porteuses de valeur dans ma carrière en tant qu'enseignante et consultante. Merci aux enseignants.

Excellent course with very thoughtful graded quiz and taught by great professors. This has helped me to grow my knowledge in startup valuation. Thanks Coursera for providing me opportunity to learn this.

Learn a lot venture capital/ angel/startup finance knowledge here. But the quizs are quit hard. Need to study hard. Anyway, a valuable lesson on coursera. Thanks so much for the instructors.

It was an amazing experience for me to learn the crucial points for start up valuation. It definitely adds vision to become an entrepreneue or an investor. Glad for the oppotunity.

Good course covering all essential topics of startup valuation problems. It offers nice introduction to many issues which can occur when valuing and analyzing young comapnies.

Fantastic Course!

All the negative comments on David Robinson are unfounded.

He made it challenging to enhance learning.

Both Manuel and David are good instructors!

All the best.

Le cours explique bien et de manière synthétique les notions principales. Le tableau de calcul est aussi très utile et rassemble efficacement toutes les notions apprises.

This course has helped gain knowledge of the valuation of companies of all sizes, basic funding criteria, and sources for a startup and a view of investors for a company.

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.

The syllabus is straight forward and informative. Interesting methods used to value start ups and good conversation of securities used by VCs and Angle investors.

The 1st part (valuation) is a bit too basic. I expected more from it. However, the 2nd part (VC) exceeded my expectations. It was quite useful and informative.

Great content, it gave a clear perspective of the way early stage companies receive financing and how VCs and Angel Investors negotiate their investments.

Highly recommended for entrepeneurs starting to raise funds and professionals interested in becoming part of the venture investment ecosystem

Great course ! It was a nice course that I enjoyed very much. The expressions and visuals of the professors are very high quality. Thanks !

Thank you, Duke, for giving me an understandable course. I must recommend you take this course in order to have a clear view of start-up.

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

The material is good, however the examples in weeks 2 and 3 need to be better explained. In most cases it's difficult to joint the dots.