We conduct an analysis of 1835 pledges to 10 music production projects hosted on the largest Brazilian crowdfunding … platform, namely the Catarse Web site, and we assess the relation between the fundraising accumulation period, the donor … close contacts might play a central role in funding. Furthermore , our results contradict the idea that crowdfunding reduces …

Over the past years crowdfunding emerged as an alternative funding channel for entrepreneurs. In contrast to … traditional financiers (banks, venture capital firms or angel investors), crowdfunding allows individuals to fund entrepreneurs … directly even with small amounts. We received individual-level data from Startnext, the biggest crowdfunding platform in …