Equity crowdfunding has been gaining more and more relevance as an alternative way for entrepreneurs to raise capital … success of equity crowdfunding. Using data from Crowdcube, one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms in the world, we …

Crowdfunding though not as popular in the western worlds is slowly catching up with other sources of raising capital in … platforms (crowdfunding platforms) to fund a project, cause or business.” The article analyses the risks that the start-ups face … and along with them the investors too. It also discusses the risks involved in investments through crowdfunding and …

Crowdfunding is an innovative strategy for financing a new business venture from the general public instead of seeking … success of a crowdfunding campaign and how different measurements for crowdfunding success, different crowdfunding models, and … the selection of subdivided determinants influence the determinants’ impacts on crowdfunding success. We set the …

Crowdfunding platforms constitute two-sided markets, bringing together entrepreneurs and potential backers; this peer … supports the existence of a causal channel from playing both sides of the market to increased crowdfunding success. We also … significantly higher than other comparable projects. We estimate the effect of such actions on the performance of crowdfunding …

Crowdfunding has broken the barriers between an aspiring entrepreneur and financial markets. Kickstarter, a leading … crowdfunding platform, which works on the ‘all-or-nothing’ model, provides various facilities to the project owners to gather the …

Crowdfunding has enabled various entrepreneurs, artists and other individuals and organisations to bring projects to … life. Despite all success stories, 63% of all projects initiated on the biggest crowdfunding platform kickstarter.com and … 46% of all projects initiated on the biggest German crowdfunding platform startnext.com, do not raise enough money to be …