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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Angel investors"”.
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Decision-Making in Early-Stage Startups: How Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Evaluate Uncertainty
… is to examine how venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors (AIs) make investment decisions regarding early-stage startups. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) framework—consisting of three core components: phenomenology, hermeneutics, and idiography—this study draws upon …
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The impact of angel investors on founders of new ventures in the medical technology industry
… is venture capital (VC). However, another type, angel investors, may be as important as VCs. Angels are accredited investors that invest their own money directly in new ventures. Founders of new Medtech ventures may choose to seek capital from angel investors in addition to, or instead of, …
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Behavioral Finance: Factors Influencing Angel Investor Decisions
<p>Angel investors are individual investors who invest in high-risk projects without the assistance of professional portfolio advisors and are an important source of early-stage entrepreneurial financing. When providing financing, an angel must decide how much time to spend on due diligence, the …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
… across countries. The second essay documents angel investors investment behaviors and performances around the world as compared with private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds. Angel investors finance small high growth entrepreneurial firms in exchange for equity. Unlike PE/VC funds, …
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THE INFLUENCE OF ANGEL INVESTOR CHARACTERISTICS ON VENTURE CAPITALIST DECISION MAKING
… decision making. Specifically, given that angel investors often invest prior to venture capitalist involvement, I draw on signaling theory to explore whether certain characteristics of affiliated angel investors can influence the judgment of venture capitalists. Taking a multi-study …
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Digital Spaza-shops and the Digitalisation of SMMEs' in South Africa
… a sample of Tech SMME, venture capitalist (VC), angel investors, and business incubators' public domain (websites). The study found that tech SMMEs embodied significant potential to digitalise other SMMEs. This potential resides in a network of business incubators with private support, VC firms …
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Does it matter how you tell it? On how entrepreneurial storytelling affects the opportunity evaluations of early-stage investors
… storytelling can influence early-stage investors' evaluations of new venture opportunities, by articulating and empirically testing a theoretical model that specifies a set of potential mechanisms by which this influence could be exerted. The theoretical model is tested with a field …
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The Storytelling Entrepreneur Has No Clothes: Risks and Rewards of Narrative Pitching
… particularly for professional audiences like investors. To explore the conditions of narrative persuasion, I qualitatively study the practice of storytelling by entrepreneurs and responses by angel investors. By coding a representative sample of 330 pitches on the reality show Shark Tank, I …
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Crowdfunding's potential in the South African entrepreneurial ecosystem: Is there a role to play in catalysing venture capital?
… perceptions of venture capital fund managers, angel investors and entrepreneurs to ascertain the extent to which crowdfunding can be incorporated into the South African entrepreneurial ecosystem and inform the investment process. The researcher, therefore, intends that this research enhance …
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Assessment of Founders in Venture Capital Investment Decisions
… theory to determine what criteria contemporary investors in early-stage startups use to assess founders. One of the first questions posed by entrepreneurship researchers - even before entrepreneurship had formalized as a field - was, what criteria do investors consider when making investments in …
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Modelo de valoración de aportes para la distribución de la participación accionaria en startups industriales colombianas
La presente propuesta de investigación planteó como objetivo formular un modelo de valoración de aportes que arrojara como resultado una propuesta técnica de distribución de participación accionaria en startups industriales colombianas. Para ello se siguió una metodología que tomó como punto de …
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors' Involvement in Firms Post Initial Public Offering
… by private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors represents an alternative type of financing available to firms in comparison to more traditional financial intermediaries such as banks, equity from owners or angel investors. These financial sponsors not only provide funding, but also …