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Fostering entrepreneurial investment decision in medical technology ventures in a changing business environment

Keppler, Sonja Bettina; Olaru, Marieta; Marin, Georgiana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 390-407

This paper presents the results obtained from a survey among public and private venture capitalists from countries which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for...

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Risk management in the venture capital industry : managing risk in portfolio companies

Proksch, Dorian; Stranz, Wiebke; Pinkwart, Andreas; … - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 18 (2016) 2, pp. 1-33

Managing risk is one of the main activities of venture capital companies. Despite the fact that this topic is of high … practical relevance, only little research was published on risk management performed by venture capital companies in their … measures to decrease failure risk in venture capital-backed ventures. We tested these hypotheses with an empirical data set of …

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Entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making : a focus on venture capitalists, business angels and early-stage entrepreneurs in South Africa

Urban, Boris; Moreno, Marco Antonio - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 24 (2022) 2, pp. 38-58

Business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs) are important sources of finance for entrepreneurs in emerging markets for raising start-up and growth capital. Recognising that entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making is a highly complex process, and that there are limited...

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The valuation implications of sales growth in start-up ventures

Gavious, Ilanit; Schwartz, Dafna - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 13 (2008) 2, pp. 1-24

We examine whether and how investors' reliance on financial information is affected by the rate of sales growth of a start-up venture. We find that investors discern between firms by the extent to which their products are adopted by the market. For firms that failed to increase their sales since...

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A robust valuation model for entrepreneurial ventures

Kedar-Levy, Haim - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2013) 2, pp. 57-74

Pro forma estimation of financial statements often builds on constant ratios to sales revenue. While constant ratios may be relevant for established firms operating in predictable industries, they yield noninformative and possibly misleading information when applied to new firms, and...

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Reassessing the practical and theoretical influence of entrepreneurship through acquisition

Hunt, Richard A.; Fund, Bret - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2012) 1, pp. 29-56

This paper presents a long overdue reassessment of entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA). Traditionally considered simply a niche occurrence of small company leveraged buyouts (LBO), ETA is actually a meaningful contributor to a nation's entrepreneurial capacity and business revitalization....

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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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The impact of competition from venture capitalists on corporate venturing investment

Bade, Marco - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 22 (2020) 1, pp. 61-77

This study proposes a model on corporate venturing (CV) investment and examines the impact of venture capital (VC) activity in the economy on CV firms’ investment. The presence of VCs creates competition for entrepreneurs. This reduces CV firms’ expected venturing returns, and thus gives...

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Financial empowerment and entrepreneurial venture creation among NGOs' beneficiaries in Kwara State, Nigeria : an empirical investigation

Eletta, Onaopemipo Adetoro; Adeyeye, M. M.; Sajuyigbe, … - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 23 (2021) 1, pp. 45-58

NGOs place much emphasis on the provision of diverse relevant training, counselling, mentoring, and financial empowerment in cash and equipment grants, loans and subsidies that made little or no impact on the lives of beneficiaries and the economy. Hence, this study examined the impact of...

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Signals in equity-based crowdfunding and risk of failure

Reichenbach, Felix; Walther, Martin J. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 7 (2021), pp. 1-30

a university degree and a higher number of business-related updates are associated with a lower risk of failure, which … team is associated with a higher risk of failure. In contrast to recent findings on offering success, we find that the …

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