Introduction -- New Venture Financing Research -- Theory and Hypotheses -- Methods -- Data and Sample Description -- Venture Investors’ Perceptions of Entrepreneurs’ Financing Hierarchies -- Effects of Crowdfinancing on Subsequent Venture Capital Selection -- Summary, Discussion and Outlook.

Fundraising for venture capital investments have continued to increase in recent years. One crucial step in the investment process is the valuation of the target company. Investors are faced with the great challenge of valuing a young venture without a corporate or financial history, a firm...

Part I. Investment Cycles -- Chapter 1. Financing Rounds with Private Capital -- Chapter 2. Angel Investing Startups -- Chapter 3. Crowdfunding: Another Way of Financing My Business -- Chapter 4. A Prospective Analysis of the Advantages of Crowdlending to Startups -- Chapter 5. The Financing of...

By analyzing venture capital industries, this book substantially adds to the understanding of Europe's venture capital industries. It discusses the microeconomics of fund raising, investment and exiting behaviour of venture capital companies and relates the microeconomics of venture capital...

Entrepreneurs need all the help they can get on their journey from inspiration to IPO. This book is required reading for any first time entrepreneur, and will make even more sense if you’re a seasoned entrepreneur! I highly commend Christian for embarking on this project and making the startup...

Part I -- VENTURE CAPITAL AND ITS EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE AGE OF COVID_ 1 -- Venture capital prior to the age of COVID_ 2 -- Political reactions and socio-economic consequences of COVID: Implications for venture capital_ PART II -- THE VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY REDEFINED_ 3 -- Transformations...

1. Storytelling and Why it’s so Important -- 2. How Venture Capital Works -- 3. How to Design you Pitch Deck -- 4. What Slides will you Need? -- 5. Slide: The Problem - and Why it is Worth Solving- 6. Slide: The Solution - and How you are Different from Other Solutions on the Market -- 7....

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other. To help...

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results about fuzzy decision-making method based on prospect theory. It includes eight chapters: Introduction, Intuitionistic fuzzy MADM based on prospect theory, QUALIFLEX based on prospect theory with probabilistic...