Purpose: This paper aims to study competencies between two groups of professionals: employees in innovative companies and entrepreneurs. Therefore the following questions arise: Are these two types of competences the same? Do innovative companies demand an entrepreneurial profile? Are...

Purpose This empirical study uses herd behavior model to explore the role of anchor investors in ensuring fundraising success and overfunding of crowdfunded ventures. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is applied to find the configurational patterns describing how...

Chapter 1. A Journey Through Entrepreneurial Fundraising -- Chapter 2. The Role of Incubators and Accelerators in Entrepreneurial Fundraising -- Chapter 3. Crowd-based Financing Tools for Entrepreneurs: A Guide for Effective Crowdfunding -- Chapter 4. Factoring, Leasing and Confirming for...

Crowdfunding is an Internet-based fundraising method that relies on contributions from a large crowd of investors to fund innovative and risky projects. The aim of this paper is to analyse which combinations of signals commonly studied for crowdfunding success lead to overfunding. Based on the...