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About the Course

How do different types of investors think about an investment opportunity? What kind of securities and contracts do they offer? How should a company decide what is a "good deal"? This course is designed to introduce you to the challenges and pitfalls of financing new enterprises. You will learn the basic tools for valuating companies, including using discounted cashflow analysis in Excel and understanding how to apply this model to your entrepreneurial venture. You will then learn how valuation works with different types of securities that investors use to finance startups, from bank loans to venture capital to angel investing....

Top reviews

CK

Apr 30, 2020

The best ever online course one could find. It is worth every single minute spent. Thank you so much for offering this course. And really so happy to complete this course. Much love to the professor.

NB

Mar 2, 2021

Learned lots of new valuation techniques, it was well crafted and smoothly presented by the professors. The tests were also in line with the course and very helpful in understanding the concepts.

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By BrewGirl C

Jul 30, 2021

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!

By Lin G

Aug 10, 2022

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.

By Kyle K

Jun 4, 2020

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.

By Luke L

Dec 17, 2021

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.

By Γιώργος Κ

Jan 9, 2022

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.

By Juan E S S

May 5, 2020

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.

By Sathyapillai S

Sep 22, 2020

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.

By N N

Jul 5, 2020

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.

By Jihène E O

Mar 7, 2022

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.

By TAPAN S

Aug 16, 2021

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.

By Shih T H

Mar 9, 2022

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.

By Ulas B C

Apr 8, 2021

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.

By Przemysław S

Dec 31, 2020

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.

By Stephen

Aug 29, 2021

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.

By Daniel B

Dec 26, 2022

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.

By shlok p

Apr 23, 2020

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.

By Flavia P

Jan 4, 2021

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.

By coralie h

Apr 20, 2020

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.

By Zhamaldinov R

May 11, 2022

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.

By Manuel F S P

May 26, 2020

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

By Ignacio F E

Jun 5, 2020

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

By Muhammed H G

Oct 24, 2020

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

By Thuong T

Jan 17, 2022

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.

By BHUSHAN M

May 20, 2020

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

By ariel j

Aug 18, 2020

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.