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Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Business Models and Keeping Customers
This module was designed to introduce you to some of the key activities you can do in order to reach and sustain profitability. You'll learn the most important rule of entrepreneurship, the different kinds of business models, how to determine who your best cus... - Week 2 - Financing, Valuation, and Terms
In this module, you'll learn the five most common methods of financing, and explore the financing process in depth. You'll also learn strategies for valuing your own company, and how venture capital and angel investors use valuations in negotiating milestones,... - Week 3 - Private and Public Financing, and Calculating Breakeven
This module was designed to give you a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of both public and private financing, and to provide you with some simple but powerful tools for estimating how much capital you will need. You'll learn about the added bene... - Week 4 - Elements of the Pitch and Exit Strategies
In this module, you'll learn the three key elements of your pitch to funders, and the examine the most common methods of exiting the entrepreneurial phase. You'll learn the structure and best practices for an executive summary, your pitch deck, and your pro-fo...
Prerequisite
Instructors
David Bell
Xinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor, Professor of Marketing
Marketing
Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Management- Wharton School
Laura Huang
Assistant Professor
Management
David Hsu
Richard A. Sapp Professor of Management
The Wharton School
Karl T. Ulrich
Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Wharton School
Lori Rosenkopf
Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Undergraduate Division
Simon and Midge Palley Professor of Management
Kartik Hosanagar
Professor
Wharton School
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