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Creo Incubator
Financial Literacy & Fundraising Readiness
CREO Financial Literacy & Fundraising Readiness Course equips learners with the financial literacy, venture finance understanding, and deal-readiness perspective needed to assess start-ups with greater confidence and clarity. Designed for learners who may not come from a finance background, the course builds a practical understanding of the financial concepts, metrics, and terminology commonly used by founders, analysts, and investment stakeholders. You will explore essential accounting principles, key business and analytical terms, and the financial indicators used to evaluate company performance, decision-making, and growth potential. The course also unpacks financial projections by examining their structure, assumptions, purpose, and limitations, helping you understand how forecasts are built and how to assess their credibility. In addition, you will examine EBITDA in depth, including what it reveals, where it is useful, and where it may be less informative in early-stage ventures. The module concludes with valuation fundamentals, comparing common valuation approaches and how they apply across different start-up stages, including pre-revenue companies. The course then turns to fundraising and investment readiness from the investor perspective. You will examine how start-ups are financed over time and how investors ultimately realise returns. This includes comparing a range of funding sources such as bootstrapping, friends and family, grants, debt, sweat equity, and investor-led financing models including equity, royalty-based financing, and venture debt, with attention to the trade-offs and implications of each. You will also explore the role of angel investors and venture capital funds, their expectations, investment logic, and typical level of involvement across stages. From there, the course follows the fundraising journey from pre-seed and seed through Series A, B, and C, introducing core venture capital structures, financing vehicles, and capital stack considerations. Finally, you will develop familiarity with the legal and financial documents that shape investment decisions, including term sheets, letters of intent, cap tables, dilution mechanisms, and exit pathways such as mergers and acquisitions. By the end of this course, you will be able to assess start-up financial health more effectively, interpret projections and valuation approaches with greater confidence, understand how financing rounds are structured, and engage more confidently in investment discussions, deal evaluation, and long-term portfolio decision-making.
LearnKartS
Salesforce Introduction
Want to develop job-ready CRM skills and obtain your Salesforce Administrator certification? This Salesforce Introduction course is an excellent starting place. This beginner-friendly course, aligned with the Salesforce Admin (CRT 101) exam, will help you build a solid foundation in the world's #1 CRM platform—no prior experience required. You'll learn about key CRM and cloud computing concepts before exploring Salesforce's interface and understanding the differences between the Classic and Lightning experiences. Learn to create and manage user accounts, design the home page, adjust user settings, and manage tabs, list views, and page layouts to organize your workspace. Master critical business performance tools such as lead management, product setup, email template creation, auto-response rules, and quotations. With detailed demos, quizzes, and video lectures, you'll feel comfortable using Salesforce in real-world circumstances. By the end of the course, you will understand not only how Salesforce works, but also how to use it effectively and prepare for the Admin certification. Enroll today and take the first step toward becoming a Salesforce specialist. Disclaimer: Salesforce, Lightning, and related marks are trademarks of Salesforce, Inc. This course is not affiliated with or endorsed by Salesforce.
EDUCBA
Analyze Employee Data with PostgreSQL SQL Projects
Learners will be able to design relational database schemas, create normalized tables, and analyze employee data using practical SQL queries in PostgreSQL. By completing this course, learners will develop the ability to join multiple tables, evaluate employee appraisals, and derive salary-based insights through real-world querying scenarios. This course is designed as a hands-on PostgreSQL project that moves beyond theory and focuses on applied problem-solving. Learners begin by setting up a PostgreSQL environment and building foundational employee and appraisal tables. They then progress to writing JOIN queries, analyzing performance data, and extracting meaningful salary insights, mirroring tasks commonly performed by data analysts and backend developers. What makes this course unique is its project-driven approach centered on a realistic employee records use case. Instead of isolated SQL concepts, learners work through an end-to-end workflow—from database setup to final query output—gaining practical experience that directly translates to workplace scenarios. By the end of the course, learners will have strengthened their SQL proficiency, improved their data analysis skills, and gained confidence in using PostgreSQL to solve structured data queries in real-world projects.
Logical Operations
Effective Management
The business world is increasingly becoming centered around the interaction of different teams, both within and outside the organization. The success of a team within a company is often directly linked to the ability of a manager to lead and manage the team effectively. To perform the job well, the manager must understand the different roles of everyone involved on the team, and be trained in developing the capabilities of all team members and addressing issues as soon as they surface. In this course you will gain an understanding of the basic fundamentals of becoming an effective manager for your team. Before a law student is able to begin practicing law, the student must endure years of intense studying and be familiar with many different legal precedents in order to understand how the law works. A surgeon must attend medical school for several years and have an extensive knowledge of the human body before they can begin operating on patients. Similarly, a manager must have a thorough understanding of team dynamics and the principles that make the difference between success and failure before they can effectively manage a group of people. By examining effective methods of communication, problem solving, delegation, and motivation, you can prepare yourself to be an effective manager. Individuals taking this course may be business professionals who are either at the managerial level, or are interested in becoming team leaders. In this course, you will explore the fundamental concepts of effective management. You will: • Determine the roles that a manager must fill on a team, and explore the key areas of personal development. • Discover how to detect silent messages through body language and other means of nonverbal communication. You will also boost your listening skills through active listening. • Discover the stages of team development and how to motivate your team. Also, you'll examine the need for regular team meetings and how to resolve conflict. • Empower your workgroup through delegation and coaching, and optimize staff performance. • Discover ways of identifying problems and determining their root cause. You'll also explore techniques to identify and implement solutions effectively.
Google Cloud
Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process 日本語版
このコースでは、実績ある設計パターンを利用して、信頼性と効率に優れたソリューションを Google Cloud で構築する方法を学習します。本コースは、Architecting with Google Compute Engine または Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine のコースの続きで、これらのコースで取り上げているテクノロジーの実践経験があることを前提としています。参加者は、講義、設計アクティビティ、ハンズオンラボを通して、ビジネス要件と技術要件を定義し、バランスを取りながら、信頼性、可用性、安全性、費用対効果に優れた Google Cloud のデプロイを設計する方法を学びます。
Google Cloud
Infraestructura de IA: TPU de Cloud
Te damos la bienvenida al curso de TPU de Cloud. Exploraremos las ventajas y desventajas de las TPU en varios escenarios y compararemos diferentes aceleradores de TPU para ayudarte a elegir el más adecuado. Aprenderás estrategias para maximizar el rendimiento y la eficiencia de tus modelos de IA y comprenderás la importancia de la interoperabilidad entre GPU y TPU para los flujos de trabajo de aprendizaje automático flexibles. A través de contenido atractivo y demostraciones prácticas, te guiaremos paso a paso para aprovechar las TPU de manera eficaz.
MedCerts
Digestion, Micturition, and Reproduction
In this course on Digestion, Micturition, and Reproduction, you will learn about the wonderful diversity of the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems and the medical language that is used to describe these systems. Throughout each Lesson, the roots of terms are explained to help students understand how medical terminology works in healthcare and to increase their knowledge and understanding of the material discussed. This course will provide you with a better understanding and working knowledge of medicine that is required for understanding of medical records used for multiple purposes and job duties in the medical field. Lessons include: Digestive System, Urinary System, and Reproductive System.
EC-Council
Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE)
Ethical Hacking Essentials is an introductory cybersecurity course that covers ethical hacking and penetration testing fundamentals and prepares learners for a career in cybersecurity. This course will introduce learners to computer and network security concepts such as threats and vulnerabilities, password cracking, web application attacks, IoT and OT attacks, cloud computing, pentesting fundamentals, and more. This course provides hands-on practical experience to learners thus giving them the skills necessary for a future in cybersecurity. EHE-certified learners have an assured means of formal recognition to add to their resumes and show off their expertise and skills to prospective employers. This improves their prospects for employment advancement, higher salaries, and greater job satisfaction.
Coursera
Editing Table of Content and Layouts in Microsoft Word
At the end of this project, you will be able to use different layout features in Microsoft Word. You will be able to create a Word document that is visually appealing and has all the features a multipage document should contain. You will be able to add a table of content, footnotes, endnotes, and page numbers. This will allow you to create the perfect document. You will also be able to easily navigate through Microsoft Word and use these different features easily.
Google Cloud
How to Use a Network Policy on Google Kubernetes Engine
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you learn how to improve the security of your Kubernetes Engine by applying fine-grained restrictions to limit intra-cluster network communication.
Coursera
App Development with Power Apps: Create Custom Components
Imagine having a rental company, in this case bike rental company, and having problems with managing the company's data. We can help you with that! You can make your life easier with no-code or low-code Power Apps capabilities. In this guided project, we will create a SharePoint site and list that will contain data about all the bikes for rent owned by the company. Among other info, the bikes will also have the status Available or Unavailable for rent, so we can track them. After that we are going to create a Power Apps application and two custom components, a PopUp window and MenuNavigation, and we are going to add forms and a gallery so we can modify the bikes' status or add new bikes to the list, as well as to see all the bikes and their status in the app gallery. The requirement for this project is having a Microsoft Developer Program account and you will be provided with instructions on how to acquire it. Although anyone with basic understanding of data types, Excel-like formulas and variables can learn to use Power Apps, the recommended background for this guided project is being familiar with Power Platform. If you fit the criteria and would like to make your life easier by automating manual, time-consuming business tasks, then this project is for you! Let's get started!
Coursera
Create a Target Market Presentation using Canva
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create a customizable target market presentation by applying design tools, building out graphics, and learning how to create custom colors. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
Packt
Mastering AWS CDK - Coding Cloud Architectures
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the power of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and learn to build scalable, maintainable, and efficient cloud architectures using infrastructure-as-code. This comprehensive course takes you from the fundamentals of AWS CDK to real-world, hands-on projects, equipping you with the skills to design and deploy cloud resources with ease. You'll begin by setting up your development environment, including AWS CLI, Node.js, and AWS CDK. Next, you’ll dive into the core concepts of CDK, understanding constructs, stacks, and best practices for structuring your projects. Throughout the course, you'll gain hands-on experience with AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway, using AWS CDK to automate deployments. The course features multiple hands-on projects, including building a REST API, setting up an S3-based image processing system, and creating scheduled events and EC2 instances. These real-world scenarios will solidify your knowledge, ensuring you're prepared to handle production-ready cloud applications with AWS CDK. Ideal for cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, and software developers, this course requires basic AWS knowledge and familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript. Whether you're a beginner in AWS CDK or looking to enhance your cloud development skills, this course will empower you to build cloud applications efficiently.
Coursera
Analyze and Optimize User Retention
Unlock the power of cohort analysis to transform raw user data into actionable retention insights that drive business growth. This course empowers data professionals to systematically segment users by acquisition channels, calculate meaningful retention metrics, and diagnose the true drivers behind user churn patterns. This Short Course was created to help data analysts accomplish strategic user retention optimization through advanced cohort analysis techniques. By completing this course, you'll be able to confidently build Looker explores that reveal sticky user segments, overlay retention curves with business events to identify seasonal patterns, and distinguish between temporary user fatigue and long-term engagement decline. These skills enable you to provide data-driven recommendations that directly impact product-market fit and marketing spend optimization. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Apply cohort analysis to calculate user retention segmented by acquisition channel Analyze retention curves to distinguish between user fatigue and seasonal effects This course is unique because it combines hands-on technical implementation in Looker with strategic business analysis, enabling you to bridge the gap between data extraction and actionable business insights. To be successful in this course, you should have a background in data analysis fundamentals and basic familiarity with business intelligence tools.
Packt
Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API Development Guide
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the power of ASP.NET Core by mastering API development from the ground up. In this course, you will explore the key principles of RESTful API development, and how to build, secure, and deploy web APIs using ASP.NET Core. Starting from setting up the development environment, you'll gain hands-on experience with Visual Studio, GitHub, Postman, and Swagger, which are essential tools for building scalable APIs. Throughout the course, you will learn to implement core functionalities like creating endpoints for GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE operations and adding advanced features like authentication, authorization, error handling, and logging. The course takes you on a journey through foundational topics, such as database modelling, Entity Framework setup, and working with data. You’ll also dive into advanced concepts like securing your API with JWT authentication, implementing refresh tokens, and integrating AutoMapper for better object mapping. Furthermore, the course covers practical skills like API versioning, caching, paging, and deploying your API to Microsoft Azure. This course is perfect for developers looking to deepen their understanding of ASP.NET Core Web API development. Whether you're a beginner who wants to start with the basics or an intermediate developer aiming to enhance your skills, this course will provide you with all the tools to build professional-grade, secure APIs. No prior experience with ASP.NET Core is required, but familiarity with basic programming concepts is beneficial. By the end of the course, you will be able to create fully functional ASP.NET Core Web APIs, implement authentication and authorization with JWT, add logging, error handling, and versioning, and deploy your application to Azure.
Google Cloud
Gemini in Google Drive - Bahasa Indonesia
Gemini untuk Google Workspace adalah add-on yang menyediakan akses ke fitur AI generatif bagi pengguna. Kursus ini mempelajari kemampuan Gemini di Google Drive menggunakan video pembelajaran, aktivitas langsung, dan contoh praktis. Di akhir kursus ini, Anda akan dibekali pengetahuan dan keterampilan untuk menggunakan Gemini di Google Drive dengan percaya diri demi meningkatkan kualitas alur kerja Anda.