Financing and Profiting from Innovation for Corporate Entrepreneurs
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Approx. 10 hours to complete
Course Summary
Learn how corporate entrepreneurs can finance their ventures and explore alternative methods of financing such as crowdfunding, angel investors, and venture capitalists.Key Learning Points
- Understand the challenges of financing corporate entrepreneurship
- Explore different financing alternatives such as crowdfunding, angel investors, and venture capitalists
- Learn how to create a financial plan for your corporate venture
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the challenges of financing corporate entrepreneurship
- Identify and evaluate different financing alternatives
- Develop a financial plan for your corporate venture
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic knowledge of finance and entrepreneurship
- Access to a computer and internet connection
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online
- On-Demand
Similar Courses
- Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation
- New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Entrepreneur and Investor
- Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
Related Books
Description
This course is for aspiring or active corporate entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure and manage funding for their corporate venture. We will demystify key accounting and financing concepts to give corporate entrepreneurs a guide to developing the business case for their ideas, and securing funding to translate ideas into reality.
Outline
- Introduction to Financing Corporate Ventures
- Preview of the Course
- Welcome to Module 1
- Finance for the corporate entrepreneur
- The entrepreneurial spectrum
- Corporate entrepreneur vs. startup entrepreneur
- The "too typical" return on investment (ROI) process
- A better approach to return on investment (ROI)
- Intangible assets and return on investment (ROI)
- The roles of products and leadership in return on investment (ROI)
- Financial statement basics
- Financial statement details
- Financial metrics
- Welcome to Financing and Profiting from Innovation for Corporate Entrepreneurs
- Meet Michael R. Pratt
- Connect with your Classmates
- Our Recommended Textbook for the Course
- Income Statement Template (Optional)
- Cash Flow Statement Template (Optional)
- Balance Sheet Template (Optional)
- Explore the Online Master of Professional Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship
- Quiz 1
- Financial Metrics Exercise - Customer Acquisition Cost and Long Term Value Exercise
- Corporate Venture Valuation Techniques
- Welcome to Module 2
- Valuation techniques
- Net present value
- Opportunity cost of capital
- Why NPV is best
- Project payback period
- Internal rate of return
- Weighted average cost of capital
- This is why public and private tech valuations are completely different (Optional)
- Analyze the ROI of your innovation idea, step by step (Optional)
- A better way to understand internal rate of return (Optional)
- Take a look at some of Uber's finances in China as it eyes an IPO (Optional)
- Quiz 2
- Corporate Venture Valuation Techniques Exercise
- Sources of Financing for Corporate Ventures
- Welcome to Module 3
- Sources of funding
- Internal funding
- Customer and vendor financing
- Franchising
- Joint ventures
- Co-branding
- Licensing agreements
- How to put your money where your strategy is (Optional)
- How nimble resource allocation can double your company’s value (Optional)
- Negotiating a better joint venture (Optional)
- Quiz 3
- Creating the Investment Proposal for the Corporate Venture
- Welcome to Module 4
- Business proposals and the pitch
- How to write an effective business proposal
- What do your funding sources want to see
- How to create a pitch deck
- Do's and don'ts of the pitch
- Final thoughts
- Unearthing the sources of value hiding in your corporate portfolio (Optional)
- Strategic principles for competing in the digital age (Optional)
- Corporate venture capital (Optional)
- Investing in breakthrough corporate venture capital (Optional)
- Concrete steps for CFOs to improve strategic risk management (Optional)
- In search of ingenuity (Optional)
- Earn a Degree Online in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Quiz 4
- The Pitch
Summary of User Reviews
This course on Corporate Entrepreneurs Financing has received positive reviews from users. Many users found the course to be informative and engaging. The course covers various aspects of corporate entrepreneurship financing and provides practical insights to learners.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Practical insights on corporate entrepreneurship financing.Pros from User Reviews
- Informative course material
- Engaging lectures
- Practical insights on corporate entrepreneurship financing
- Excellent instructor
- Good balance of theory and practice
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course content to be too basic
- Lack of interaction with other learners
- Limited scope of the course
- Requires prior knowledge of finance and entrepreneurship
- Some technical issues with the platform
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