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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 Juan p T

Jul 29, 2020

Week three felt a little weird, as like if a video was missing... also week 1 quizz had some questions that also seemed weird. Appart from that it was a great course!

By Oscar C

May 4, 2021

Great course overall. I particularly enjoyed week 1 and 2 on start-up valuation tools, the professor was very articulate. Week 3 and 4 slides were not always optimal.

By Mohaiminul I

May 18, 2020

I will suggest others to know about VC and valuation of startups through this course. I would rate it 5star if it had more detailed discussion of equity valuation.

By Christopher L

Apr 3, 2020

Overall course was good. I would have given 5 stars if the instructors/staff were responsive to Forum questions (which is very important for FAQs - in my opinion)

By Houman J

Aug 9, 2022

The first 2 weeks were amazing but I didn't enjoy the 3rd and 4th week lectures as the materials and explanation weren't as nice and simple as the first 2 weeks!

By Giovanni M M

May 14, 2020

Week 3 could be improved, the lecturer was not specific with certain valuation formulas thus creating a lot of confusion. Other than that, great course. Thanks!

By Vishal P

Jul 31, 2020

It was a great overview on basics of Angel & VC Funding. The faculties explained everything quite point to point with related examples.

By Kamran T

Mar 23, 2020

Instructors are amazing and their delivery is superb. Course provides a basic level introduction to start up's valuation.

By Ruben d J M

Aug 3, 2020

Solid overview course on VC valuation. Math behind the various examples could have been explained more thoroughly.

By jayant s

Apr 22, 2021

It was a really informative course and a well-structured course. I thoroughly enjoyed learning from this course.

By Evan S

Dec 21, 2021

The second instructors guidance was less informative and I felt relatively unprepared going into the quizes.

By Daniel U

Apr 21, 2020

Excellent course. Could be more precise in some examples because sometimes the exercises are not explicit.

By Nilesh M

May 28, 2020

The course covers good material to learn but, the starting week 3 the teaching quality is not good.

By Krishnan S

May 8, 2020

The last two modules seemed very compressed. Explanations could've been a little more detailed.

By Pulkit J

May 26, 2020

Teaches a lot about startups, would have loved to see more valuation methods in this course

By Rohan L

May 13, 2020

The course covers a lot of topics which is great but I felt like there was a lack of depth

By Zoljargal G

Jun 14, 2022

Some quiz questions were graded against wrong answers, resulting in lower overall grade

By Viet B

Jan 13, 2022

Quizzes are confusing and sometimes ask questions that were not covered in the module

By Iven

Apr 7, 2020

Good overview from over all investor presepctive, with easy and simplified formula

By María P Á

Feb 24, 2021

First 2 weeks where good, lot of learning, last 2 weeks really confusing.

By David G

Jul 2, 2020

Course started losing clarity beginning with the second professor.

By Sam A

Sep 19, 2021

Some outside research is needed, but it is a good course overall.

By Dylan R

Nov 8, 2020

Too quick, they brush over some key details imo. Good overall

By khalid N

Dec 25, 2021

One of the best and well taught course on the subject.

By Ricardo A M C

Sep 1, 2021

Very Good Course to understand Valuation Methods