How can you find the financial resources to make your firm successful? This course introduces the basics of entrepreneurial financing, including sources and the basic accounting and finance needed to understand these issues.
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Module 9 – Strategic Entrepreneurial Finance: Getting Returns for your Effort.
How can you fund your firm while maintaining control and returns for your effort? How can you get your firm to an IPO or exit? This course requires the basic entrepreneurial finance course and goes into greater depth and focuses on strategy, including negotiations, pitching, venture capital structures and motives, and exit strategies.
Module 10 – Entrepreneurial Business Models and Scaling Strategies
How can you turn your great idea into a viable business model? How can you acquire customers and scale a sustainable venture? This course discusses a variety of entrepreneurial business models, efficient and effective customer acquisition, scaling operations, and how to get around incumbents’ barriers to entry – and erect your own.
Program Overview
Access the best of Berkeley Engineering in just five weeks from a classroom near you. Each week, you will complete an intensive study of two fields central to engineering. This requires: 6–8 instructional hours via Global Live technology 12-20 independent study hours When you finish the program, you will receive: Berkeley College of Engineering Certificate…
Module 1: Programming and Physics
THE ESSENTIALS OF PROGRAMMING Basic arrays, definition and manipulations, functions and plotting—essential computer programming basics for those interested in computer science, data science, and information management. Basic programming Basic arrays, definitions, and manipulations Functions and plotting FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS I Understand water, so essential to life, with the basics of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics: properties of…
Module 2: Linear Algebra and Physics
THE ESSENTIALS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA Review the essentials of linear algebra for engineering applications. Starting from matrix manipulations, extensive use of engineering applications is used to illuminate and motivate matrix operations, types of matrices, and properties of matrices. Motivational applications Matrix and vector algebra: various products Eigenvalues and eigenvectors FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS II Explore how fundamental…
Module 3: Circuits, Probability and Statistics
CIRCUITS Build on the mathematical tools taught earlier in the program: how analog circuits can be modeled as systems of algebraic and differential equations, the basics of transistor modeling, and how transistors can be used to build digital circuits. Basic principles of resistive circuits Translation of resistive circuits into systems of linear algebraic equations Basic…
Module 4: Modeling and Simulation Tools for Industrial Research Applications
THE FIELD OF SIMULATION MACHINE-LEARNING AND OPTIMIZATION Learn techniques of modeling and simulation, numerical methods, and their implementation on physical problems motivated by real-world phenomena that engineers and scientists are likely to encounter in their careers involving energy systems, materials engineering, structural analysis, dynamics, controls, etc. Master the concept of “optimal” and Classical Gradient-based Methods…