Mastering
Entrepreneurial
Finance
Learn the key finance skills to drive the success of your entrepreneurial journey from startup to growth stage.
What is this course about?
Is this course for me?
Our Mastering Entrepreneurial Finance course is especially designed for:
Startup founders preparing for fundraising or exploring bootstrapping strategies
Small business owners planning investments and expansions - or getting started
Acquisition entrepreneurs contemplating capital structures to fund their deal
Business professionals looking to improve their practical financial skills
Whether you are establishing a new company or aiming to grow an existing venture, you will need financing for key activities and resources. These can include product development, production assets, marketing, salaries, working capital, and even business acquisitions.
With the help of Mastering Entrepreneurial Finance online course, you’ll be able to take full control of the key financing decisions of your business. You’ll learn to understand better how your investors and financiers are thinking and making decisions.
The online finance course contains 8 video lectures totalling up to 3 hours, and 10 real-life cases on entrepreneurial finance. In addition, you’ll get lifetime access to all lecture slides, plus dozens of curated readings and resources.
What will I learn?
What is Entrepreneurial Finance?
What are the key questions asked by the financiers when assessing proposals?
Return, Risk, and Liquidity
How do return, risk and liquidity affect your cost of capital? How are these? quantified in the build-up method?
Capital Structures and Cost of Capital
How to balance your equity and debt financing? How to use WACC formula?
Equity as Source of Financing
What do cost of equity and shareholder equity mean? What risks are typically associated with equity financing?
Debt as Source of Financing
What are the different tranches of debt, and what are typical terms expected by the debt financiers on business loans?
Repayment Capacity, Solvency, and Collateral
How do solvency and collateral limit the debt funding your business can raise?
Income Financing and Bootstrapping
How can you reduce the dependency on financiers through bootstrapping?
Which Financing is Right for Me?
How to combine equity, debt and income financing for startup, growth and acquisition?
Course Instructor
Mikko Järvinen is a founding partner with True North Search, and an experienced entrepreneurship practitioner and educator.
His 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience spans from founding, leading and advising startups in tech and health care to small business acquisitions. Throughout his career, he has worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and successful fundraising projects for various ventures.
Mikko teaches regularely on university level and his book is used in higher education entrepreneurship curriculums. He hold’s an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Aalto University.
“A mind-blowing set. I never really took the investors view before.”
“Solvency, collateral, cost of capital, WACC - finally this makes sense to me.”