Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business
This course introduced learners to the importance of funding when starting a business. The course provided time to plan, share ideas with others and start to document thoughts in a structured business plan.
2 weeks, 2 hours per week
Nigel Lockett
Professor of Enterprise
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the types of funds that can be raised to help get a business up and running.
- Identify the factors which impact on the way a new venture is financed eg company type, the market or sector the company is trading within, the aspirations of the founders.
- Discuss the entrepreneur’s business challenge: How can the expansion of the team’s company be funded?
- Assess funding for a business plan.
- Assess whether funding is required to get started.
- Reflect on how you would approach financial sources.
Syllabus
- The options available to raise capital for new ventures
- Financial support in your locality
- How to fund the expansion of a business
- An introduction to crowdfunding
- Pitch your business idea, product or service
- The business plan: funding a business
Issued on 5th June 2017
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