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This study investigates signal validity in equity-based crowdfunding by examining whether signals that increase crowd … leading German equity-based crowdfunding platform, Companisto. We find that indicating that the chief executive officer holds …
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This paper studies how early stage entrepreneurs respond to negative feedback about the quality of their ventures using data from new venture competitions. In some competitions, founders are privately informed of their relative rank but did not know there would be feedback ex-ante. The empirical...
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Equity crowdfunding markets have grown exponentially over the last few years. Despite this impressive growth … failure. In this paper, we depart from current equity crowdfunding research that focuses almost exclusively on the funding ….g., internal or external and formal or informal) that potentially operate in equity crowdfunding markets to reduce adverse …
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What role does the selection of an investor and the timing of financing play in initial coin offerings (ICOs)? We investigate the operating and financial performance of ventures conducting ICOs with different types of investors at different points in the ventures' life cycle. We find that,...
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This research examines how startup founders' academic knowledge, and knowledge gained through startup founding experience, signal investors and attract investments. We further examine, for both financed and non-financed startups, whether these signals are associated with the startup's...
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The aim of this study is to explore the previously unresearched outcomes of firms funded through equity crowdfunding, a … novel type of entrepreneurial finance. We study the outcomes of a sample of 337 firms funded on equity crowdfunding … to equity crowdfunding campaign-related factors. A main finding is that the firms experience on average a peak in both …
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