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Start-up funding via equity crowdfunding in Germany: A qualitative analysis of success factors
Angerer, Martin; Brem, Alexander; Kraus, Sascha; Peter, … - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 19 (2017) 1, pp. 1-34
. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of crowdfunding, and is also known as crowdinvesting in the German-speaking realm …. This article predominantly advances the scientific knowledge regarding the success factors of equity crowdfunding for …
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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...
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Financial signaling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291111
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Smart capital in German start-ups: an empirical analysis
Schäfer, Dorothea; Schilder, Dirk - 2007
It is still an open question what kind of smart capital relational investors actually supply. We divide smart capital into several components and conduct a survey among 85 German suppliers of start-up finance. The results show that the degree of "smartness" is determined by the financial product...
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Investor protection and business creation
Hyytinen, Ari; Takalo, Tuomas - 2004
We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of new firms in an equilibrium search model of private capital markets. In addition to search frictions, we examine contract frictions, specifically interim and ex post moral...
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Founder personality and start-up subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...
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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure
Zunino, Diego; van Praag, Mirjam (C.M.); Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
crowdfunding. Respondents evaluate a realistic investment opportunity in a between-subjects design, where we decompose the effect …
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The determinants of crowdfunding development - empirical analysis in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Bednarz, Joanna; Markiewicz, Magdalena; Ploska, Agnieszka - 2017
Research background: Crowdfunding (CF) is a method of raising money for projects and enterprises by an online platform … crowdfunding. The research is dedicated to the chosen countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the period of 2005 … widely. Moreover, there is a significant impact of the age structure of the population on the crowdfunding development …
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Szakirodalmi áttekintés a korai fázisú, gyorsan növekvő innovatív vállalkozások tőkefinanszírozását segítő alternatív megoldásokról
Judit, Karsai - 2019
equity crowdfunding platforms. The strength of the business angels' market is increasing. In the past, business angels …
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The crowdfunding of altruism
Faust, Luisa; Kolbe, Maura; Mansouri, Sasan; Momtaz, Paul P. - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-29
? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on crowdfunding outcomes in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The main result …
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