Crowdfunding platforms offer promising opportunities for project founders to publish their project ideas and to collect money in order to be able to realize them. Consequently, the question of what influences the successful funding of projects, i.e., reaching the target amount of money, is very...

This article analyzes the determinants of successful crowdfunding initiatives using a sample of 5,251 projects from the reward-based Spanish platform Verkami. In contrast to most of the literature that has measured success with a dichotomous variable, we approach success with a continuous one,...

Auf der Basis einer umfassenden Analyse internationaler empirischer Studien der vergangenen 25 Jahre sowie einer empirischen Untersuchung von 468 jungen KMU setzt sich Sascha Kraus erstmals für den deutschsprachigen Raum mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen strategischer Planung und Erfolg in jungen...

Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur,...