Entrepreneurial Finance Foundations Course
Learn the key finance skills that will help enable success in your entreprenurial journey.
With the help of Entrepreneurial Finance Foundations course, you’ll be able to take control of key financing decisions for your business. You’ll better understand how your investors and financiers think and make decisions, regarding the financing of key activities and resources required to grow your business.
This course contains multiple hours of targeted video lectures, real-life cases on entrepreneurial finance, downloadable access to all of the lecture slides, curated readings and resources.
Whether you are establishing a new venture or growing an existing one, you will need financing for key activities such as:
Product Development
Production or Technology Assets
Marketing and Advertising
Labor Salaries
Working Capital
Business Acquisitions
This course will help you better understand the different financing options for developing and growing your business.
This course is specifically designed for:
Start-up founders preparing for fundraising or exploring bootstrapping strategies
Small business owners planning investments & expansions
Acquisition entrepreneurs contemplating various capital structures to fund their deals
Business professionals looking to improve their entrepreneurial finance skills
Sign up for a free preview
You’ll get access to the first two video lectures of the course - completely free of charge. The links to “What is Entrepreneurial Finance?” video lectures will be emailed to you over the next 3 days.
Course Content
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 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.
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“A mind-blowing set. I never really took the investors view before.”
“Solvency, collateral, cost of capital, WACC - finally this makes sense to me.”