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Do company builders create jobs? : examining the rise of incubation finance in Germany
Scheuplein, Christoph; Kahl, Julian - 2017
Over the past decade, new types of business incubation have been developed. One particularly prominent example is company builders, which use their own resources to build up companies, establishing numerous companies in a series. In doing so, this investor type facilitates internal and external...
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Informed capital in a hostile environment : the case of relational investors in Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Schilder, Dirk (contributor) - 2006
Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-up finance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-based systems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capital has not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314893
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Public venture capital in Germany : task force or forced task?
Schilder, Dirk (contributor) - 2006
This paper deals with the question of whether public venture capital (VC) is performing its task properly, taking a look at how public VC companies' selection process, investment behavior, and consulting services reflect goals that differ from those of private VC firms. The results present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376214
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Internet-Based Entrepreneurial Finance : Lessons from Germany
Hornuf, Lars - 2018
The Internet-based crowdinvesting market in Europe has developed significantly since its start in 2007 and has become an alternative source of finance for entrepreneurs to sell securities through the Internet to small investors. This market evidences a great variety in platform design and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937825
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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: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 19 (2017) 1, pp. 1-34
Entrepreneurs often struggle to find sufficient funding for their start-ups. A relatively new way for companies to attract capital is via an internet platform, locating investors who in return receive something in return for their ventures. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of...
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Smart Capital in German Start-Ups - An Empirical Analysis
Schaefer, Dorothea; Schilder, Dirk - 2016
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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Early Stage-Finanzierungen : Spannungsfeld zwischen Gründern, Investoren und staatlichen Rahmenbedingungen
Posner, Dirk - 1996
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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young, innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea; Werwatz, Axel; Zimmermann, Volker - 2004 - This Draft: February 2004
Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of … the role of risk for the choice of the method of financing. Since risk is not directly observable we use different … indicators for financial and project risk. It turns out that our data generally confirms the hypothesis that the probability that …
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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Werwatz, Axel (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003349883
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The determinants of debt and (private) equity financing : the case of young, innovative SMEs from Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea; Werwatz, Axel; Zimmermann, Volker - In: Industry and innovation 11 (2004) 3, pp. 225-248
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