We investigate the differences in venture capital (VC) governance of investee firms with Open Business Models (OBMs), specifically Open Source Software (OSS), versus closed business models. Due to OSS's pronounced complexity and uncertainty, we conjecture that VC-backed OSS firms are more...

Digitization dramatically changes entrepreneurs’ business models and their implications for the type and timing of finance that support them. It creates new financial channels (including crowd-investors and initial coin offerings) that complement, and in part substitute, traditional...