Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Strategy and Innovation, Duke University

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Evaluating business ventures using Excel spreadsheet models
  • Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different financing strategies
  • Managing a startup’s funding strategy
  • Building capital tables in Excel
  • Blockchain technology analysis
  • Identifying opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models
  • Using the R programming language to calculate the return of a stock portfolio
  • Quantifying market risk

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Project managers
  • Financial managers
  • Financial analysts
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Startup managers
  • Blockchain experts
  • Data analysts
  • Business strategy planners
  • Investment managers
  • Finance professionals
  • Market researchers
  • Software developers with expertise in R

Internship – 4-lesson course series

From entrepreneurs to executives, this internship provides an opportunity to learn how to drive business innovation in your company and gain insights from leading teachers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Courses:

  • Course One: Evaluating Business Ventures Using Excel Spreadsheet Models. Understanding the Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Financing Strategies.
  • Second course: Managing a startup’s financing strategy, including building capital tables in Excel.
  • Third course: Analyzing blockchain technologies, identifying opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models.
  • Fourth course: Using the R programming language to calculate the return on a stock portfolio and quantify market risk.

This internship is also an excellent opportunity for professionals interested in Fuqua’s master’s programs to gain expert insight into Fuqua’s lectures and teachers.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will learn how to evaluate business ventures, build equity tables and explore different financing strategies, identify opportunities to disrupt and innovate business models using blockchain, and use the R language to calculate the returns of a stock portfolio.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Startup valuation methods

Course 1: Startup Valuation

Duration: 6 hours
Rating: 4.4 (699 ratings)

What you’ll learn: How different types of investors view an investment opportunity, what securities and contracts they offer, and how to determine what a “good deal” is. The course covers the challenges of financing new ventures, including cash flow analysis in Excel.

  • Evaluation (finance)
  • Startup
  • finance
  • Cash flow analysis
  • Entrepreneurship

Course 2: Financing for Startup Businesses

Duration: 6 hours
Rating: 4.5 (205 ratings)

What you will learn: Managing a startup’s funding strategy, including building capital tables in Excel. The course deals with digital innovations that enable new ways of funding.

  • Venture capital
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Startup
  • Venture capital financing
  • finance

Course 3: Blockchain-based business models

Duration: 12 hours
Rating: 4.7 (369 ratings)

What you will learn: Understanding blockchain technologies and its various applications, including Stablecoins, cross-device payments, supply chain management, and more.

  • Business Model
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Innovation
  • Disruptive innovation

Course 4: Financial Risk Management with R

Duration: 14 hours
Rating: 4.4 (243 ratings)

What you will learn: Calculating the return on a portfolio of securities and quantifying the market risk of that portfolio using the R programming language.

  • Investment portfolio (finance)
  • Risk management
  • Financial risk
  • Risk analysis
  • R programming