Square, Inc. is a provider of hard- and software enabling small merchant businesses to accept card payments. The company was founded in 2009 by, among others, Jack Dorsey who still runs the company to this day. Based in San Francisco, the company has been part of Silicon Valley's Unicorn-iverse,...

Digitization dramatically changes entrepreneurs’ business models and their implications for the type and timing of finance that support them. It creates new financial channels (including crowd-investors and initial coin offerings) that complement, and in part substitute, traditional...