Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation, offered by Duke University, provides a comprehensive learning experience for entrepreneurs and executives seeking to advance business innovation and finance entrepreneurial ventures. This Specialization encompasses four courses, covering topics such as valuating entrepreneurial ventures using Excel, building capitalization tables, exploring financing strategies, identifying opportunities to use blockchain technologies, and using R programming to calculate the return of a stock portfolio.
Throughout the program, learners will gain practical insights from leading faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, allowing them to develop a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in entrepreneurial finance. The course content is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed financing decisions and drive innovation within their companies. Additionally, professionals interested in Fuqua’s master’s programs can gain valuable insights into the faculty’s expertise and courses through this Specialization.
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This Specialization encompasses four courses that cover topics such as valuating entrepreneurial ventures, managing startup financing strategies, understanding blockchain technologies, and using R programming for financial risk management.
How do different types of investors think about an investment opportunity? What kind of securities and contracts do they offer? This course introduces the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises, covering basic tools for valuating companies and understanding different types of securities used to finance startups, from bank loans to venture capital to angel investing.
This course teaches you how to build capitalization tables in Excel to explore different financing strategies for startup companies. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance entrepreneurial ventures, including crowdfunding and alternative credit scoring mechanisms based on web-based data. The module concludes with cutting-edge research on the financial technology industry.
In this course, you will gain an advanced understanding of various blockchain technologies and learn to identify specific business situations where blockchain technology can be deployed to solve important problems. The goal is to provide insights into the value and risks presented by blockchain technology in disrupting and innovating business models.
This course teaches you how to calculate the return of a portfolio of securities and quantify the market risk of that portfolio using the R programming language with Microsoft Open R and RStudio. You will gain essential skills for financial market analysis, including using Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) to measure market risk.
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