Starting a Business 6: Funding Your Business

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Course Features

Duration

2 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Lifetime Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

2 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Funding is essential for a successful business. There are many options to fund your business, including informal sources like personal savings, borrowing, borrowing from family and friends, and formal avenues such as bank loans, equity raising, and crowd-funding. This course will teach you how to finance the expansion of your business and the various financing options available.

This is the last course in a six-part series about starting a business.

Course Overview

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International Faculty

Case Based Learning

Post Course Interactions

Case Studies,Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Assess funding for a business plan

Assess whether funding is required to get started

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the types of funds that can be raised to help get a business up and running

Discuss the entrepreneurÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s business challenge: How can the expansion of the teamÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s company be funded?

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

Reflect on how you would approach financial sources

Target Students

This course is part of the Going to University collection which has been specifically designed for students at schools and colleges

Course Content

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Module 1: The options available to raise capital for new ventures

Module 2: Financial support in your locality

Module 3: How to fund the expansion of a business

Module 4: An introduction to crowdfunding

Course Instructors

Emilee Simmons

Instructor

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Business Growth and Entrepreneurship Education at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University (Glasgow).