Finance

The overall objective of the course is to build financial acumen to make you a successful entrepreneur or manager. You will learn: 1. Financial statement analysis, 2. Cost management, 3. Financial Management

Learn the ideas, concepts and tools managers use to make the right financial decisions.

Skills you will gain: 1. Venture Capital, 2. Exit Strategy, 3. Finance, 4. Entrepreneurship.

Discover how to use fundamental finance tools in both management and MBA learning contexts and understand common financial situations faced in everyday life.

In this you will learn: 1. How primary financial statements are constructed and what types of information is captured in each statement, 2. How cash and profits can differ and how to use that information to effectively manage growth, 3. How to calculate key performance ratios and use those metrics to evaluate the performance of your business, 4. How to create a financial forecast that you can use to better manage your business and to present to potential investors and creditors

In this course, you will discover a variety of options for funding your business and how to successfully negotiate financial opportunities. You will learn how to value and evaluate ideas to determine the appropriate benefits and costs in order to screen them correctly. Finally, you will learn how to value a business and the securities you can use to potentially fund your organization.

Mihir Desai from Harvard Business School teaches why Entrepreneurs don't want to learn finance and why we really should. It's the number one reason businesses fail, are you paying attention? Learn how to illuminate finance within your business.

Learn about equity markets and security valuation.

There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (equity allocation, vesting), accounting, and other overhead right will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Kirsty Nathoo, CFO at Y Combinator, and Carolynn Levy, General Counsel at Y Combinator, cover these very important topics in this lecture.

Learn how to incorporate financial considerations into your life decisions and become an effective consumer of financial information.

In this session we'll explore the options and help you think through not just your initial funding but a trajectory to stay funded until you've reached your goal, be that an independent public company or a self-sustaining social venture. We'll also try to remove the mystique of VC and as usual bring some case examples to bear to bring it all to life.

Learn the secrets of successful startup fundraising from veteran entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, an estimated $4.5 trillion per year in additional investment and finance in EMDEs will need to be mobilized. This free online course assesses global efforts and innovations by international investors, multilateral development banks and policymakers to unlock massive investment opportunities in EMDEs, while also tackling some of the world’s most pressing development challenges of our time.