We examine the geography of early stage entrepreneurial finance in the context of an internet marketplace for funding … limited reputations. At the same time, however, observers of the spatial effects of the internet and related technologies … report that many economic activities have become much less geographically dependent. At an aggregate level, the internet …

This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …

research including implications for firms’ revenue models from the increasing importance of the mobile Internet. Copyright …