Advanced · 1h 59m · 15 lessons
Digital Entrepreneurship: Advanced
Fund it, hire for it, and build systems so your business runs without you.
What you'll learn
- ✦Compare bootstrapping, borrowing and investor funding by their real cost to a founder, not just the cash they bring
- ✦Decide whether a business is investor-ready by naming the concrete proof investors actually check before funding
- ✦Decide who to hire first by naming the one task that is the founder's own biggest time bottleneck
- ✦Hand off a task with a written process, and manage a hire by their results, not their style
- ✦Write a step-by-step process for one task so someone else gets the same correct result without the founder present
- ✦Pick the three numbers that best predict trouble, and run a weekly review that catches problems early
- ✦Decide whether a marketplace or subscription model fits, and price a subscription using churn and customer count
- ✦Plan a business exit: a sale, a handover with no sale, or a well-run close, with a clear transition
Certification projects
Build 3 projects to earn your certificate
Hands-on work that proves you can apply what you learned — part of the certificate requirements.
Syllabus
Module 1 · 25m
Funding Your Growth Free
What you'll be able to do
- Can compare bootstrapping, borrowing and investor funding by their real cost, not just the cash amount
- Can calculate a loan's total interest and what an equity percentage would be worth at a future valuation
- Can name the concrete proof (revenue trend, margin, repeat rate) an investor checks before funding a business
Module 2 · 23m
Hiring and Delegation Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can decide who to hire first by finding their own biggest time bottleneck
- Can decide which task to hand off first, choosing the most repeatable and documented one
- Can manage a hire by their results against a clear standard, not by matching the founder's own working style
Module 3 · 24m
Systems That Run Without You Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can write a step-by-step process for one task so someone else gets the same correct result
- Can pick the three numbers that best predict trouble in their business
- Can run a short weekly review that catches a problem while it is still small
Module 4 · 25m
Marketplace and SaaS Models Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can decide whether a marketplace model fits their business, checking for two independent sides and a real trust problem
- Can decide whether a subscription model fits, based on whether the customer's need genuinely repeats
- Can price a subscription by working through price, churn and customer count together
Module 5 · 22m
Exits and Stepping Back Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Can list what makes a business sellable: proof it runs without the owner, documented systems, and clean numbers
- Can plan a succession that hands over control without a sale, naming which decisions transfer and when
- Can plan a well-run exit - sale, succession or closure - with a real transition period and no one left stranded