Learner Reviews & Feedback for How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC by University of London
About the Course
this course is for you. What? This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your
customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial
superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more. Sadly, though, the five models are rarely talked about and not widely
understood. Until now! The five models will be brought to life by the real-world stories of an inspiring collection of incredibly c...
Top reviews
SK
Jul 19, 2020
A beautiful and well oriented course which helps proving your concept of business by customer funding and no external venture capital. Thank you so much to the course instructor and the whole team.
KK
May 13, 2017
It was an amazing opportunity wherein we had a great chance to both learn about various customer funded models through interviews, guest talks and practice them through assignments in parallel
126 - 139 of 139 Reviews for How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC
By Edward B
•May 10, 2016
A great, practical approach to growing a startup
By Dimitrios
•Jun 17, 2019
Very interesting course. Makes you think.
By Kayeye M J
•May 12, 2017
Nice lecture. I have learn a lot
By Alessandro A
•Jun 3, 2018
While the content of the course is valid and thought stimulating, the development of the course is barely sufficient in my opinion. It resembles too much as an advertisement of the professor's book, extended over 7 weeks of MOOC. The investor interviews are interesting at the beginning, but tend to become boring on the long run. Sometimes they fall into simple chit-chat and always go around the same topics again and again ("no need for VC funds / bootstrapping make you stronger and better / etc."). I cannot say that this course is bad because I did take some valuable insights from it. However, it is not an excellent course either, it is rather a middle of the pack type of MOOC. Peer reviews have been quite slow perhaps due to low attendance of the course itself.
By Gunay F
•May 22, 2020
I would appreciate to have a more direct interchange with the course Professor, to have him more engaged in the evaluation of our homework, his participation in our discussion forums.
By Hieronymus D
•Sep 15, 2019
Less financing, more a pricing model focus.
also far to often does he recommend hos book.
By Mehwish k
•Oct 23, 2017
it was amazing and very knowledgeable
By Adhitya B
•May 8, 2016
Very Useful
By Γιώργος Κ
•Jan 9, 2022
The course is only a collection of interviews of other entrepreuners. I do not believe it provides any specific knowledge and the topics discussed are too generic. The interviews are nice, but I would expect a clear guide on how to bootstrap your own start-up without VC.
By Lucas G
•Jan 10, 2020
The ideas behind this course are good but seem like the main focus is to promote a book that the author has written on the topic. Insufficient people taking it as for the peer review system to work. It took 25 days for my last submission to be reviewed.
By Asrarul K M
•Sep 8, 2018
This course is basically a collection of interviews with some experts and indirect advertisement toward's the instructor's authored book on the subject
By ELEONOR P
•Apr 12, 2022
Assigments are really hard to submit and confusing to follow through or understand.
By Eloi G
•Nov 15, 2020
This MOOC should just take 5 slides. No need to even do videos.
By Aurelien T
•Nov 30, 2023
very poor content...I gave up after one week....