Startup Finance, Legal Structures, and Business Systems

 This course is designed to help you develop an understanding of how to develop, analyze, and manage financial, legal, and other systems needed to build and manage a business. The successful development of a business depends on effectively managing a range of systems and processes, from sales funnels to financial reports and legal structures. This course emphasizes the practical mechanics of managing an organization from a few people to many thousand people. 

Learning Outcomes

 When they have successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

• Assemble the primary financial documents used to build a business and how to use them.

• Explain the various terms generally seen in an investment document and the importance of those

terms in an investment negotiation.

• Describe common organizational structures for businesses.

• Describe common legal and regulatory issues that need to be addressed when building a business.

• Define and implement a plan to mitigate key business risks through insurance and other means.

• Implement core systems and processes for a business.

• Describe some of the common types of tools used by businesses to optimize efficiency and performance; and

• Write a Business Plan