Innovativeness of a start-up is regarded as a prerequisite to acquire venture capital. However, it is neither obvious …-depth interviews with venture capital decision makers we derive statements regarding the role of a start-up's innovativeness in the … venture capital funding decision. We find, among other things, that VCs evaluate the various dimensions of innovativeness …

superior to an individual decision.We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital …. Venture capital partners, acting independently with their personal funds, make investments into younger firms with less …

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate how cognitive framing of initiative failure affects strategic … intention to make explorative and exploitative choices in response to initiative failure. The study finds that – under the … condition of uncertainty - the experience of initiative failure increases entrepreneurs’ (decreases managers’) willingness to …

This paper studies corporate venture capital (CVC) units of large US corporations to learn how they make decisions … VC firms. Unlike institutional VC firms, most CVC units do not manage committed venture funds, but instead invest from … role in approving individual decisions, are common. Many corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) believe executives at their …

numbers of small investors. We analyze the motivations and decision criteria of equity crowdfunding investors using responses …Online equity crowdfunding is a novel form of entrepreneurial finance, through which ventures can sell shares to large … to a large-scale survey. We find, first, that investors form three distinct motivation-based clusters: donation …