Research background: Crowdfunding (CF) is a method of raising money for projects and enterprises by an online platform …. Since around 2003 it is getting popular and becoming a natural method of pre-financing for start-ups before reaching out to … crowdfunding. The research is dedicated to the chosen countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the period of 2005 …

There have been significant changes in the financing of early-stage innovative companies since the beginning of this … decade. The importance of institutional venture capital funds' investments declined in financing startups and early …-stage ventures. At the same time, alternative sources of financing early-stage companies increased. Alternative sources of funding …

cultural and commercial entrepreneurs through reward crowdfunding. We propose that backers of commercial campaigns are a …-minded individuals. We use data from the largest German crowdfunding platform, Startnext, and analyze 2334 rewards from 225 cultural and …

cultural and creative industries or academic entrepreneurship. Ultimately, a potpourri of manifold spatial metaphors connected …

financing instruments, and third testing of governance by individually agreed upon, and contractually binding, objectives. In …

Crowdfunding is a method of financing new ventures, commercial, cultural or social, often in return for future products … financing the activity of enterprises, which is crowdfunding. … financing for investment projects. Despite the interest of potential investors, individual social sponsors and large …

Crowdfunding, as a specific e-business activity, changes the way in which entrepreneurs collect money for financing … crowdfunding activity in general in the context of entrepreneurial self-financing. Then, on the basis of the case study analysis … their business projects in various business activities starting from social entrepreneurship and software development …

are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …

Membership platforms allow creators to crowdfund a monthly income, while campaigns on conventional reward crowdfunding … biggest membership platform, to gain insights about behavioral patterns at this emerging type of crowdfunding. Our analysis … a creator at any time serves as a feedback mechanism. We conclude that crowdfunding a monthly income offers the creative …