Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization Offered By Duke University

From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization will teach you how to develop business innovation in your organization while also providing you with insights from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business experts.

In the first session, you'll learn how to use Excel spreadsheet models to evaluate entrepreneurial projects, particularly high-growth firms. You'll also learn how to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of various financing options, such as loan investments, venture capital, angel investing, and crowdsourcing.

The second course will teach you how to handle a startup's finance strategy, including how to use Excel to create capitalization tables (often known as "cap tables"). Cap tables will assist you in evaluating various financing techniques for your new firm and determining which funding options are suitable for your business.

The third course moves on to a discussion of blockchain technology, where you'll learn how to spot possibilities to disrupt and reinvent business models utilizing blockchain, as well as how to avoid poorly executed blockchain applications in the workplace.

The fourth course will show you how to utilize R programming to compute a stock portfolio's return as well as estimate the portfolio's market risk. This Specialization is also a great way for professionals interested in Fuqua's master's programs to learn more about the professors and courses offered by Fuqua.

This course offers:

• Flexible Schedule: Set and maintain flexible deadlines.
  
• Certificate : Earn a Certificate upon completion
  
• 100% online
  
• Intermediate Level
• Approx.4 months to complete: Suggested pace of 3 hours/week
  
• Subtitles: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese

Coursera Rating: 4.5/5.0
Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/entrepreneurial-finance