Essays about: "Crowd financing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Crowd financing.

  1. 1. The Impact of the Founding Team’s Human Capital on Token Sale Success: An analysis of European ICOs between 2016-2021

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Geoffroy Leuba; Amrit Gill; [2022]
    Keywords : entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; token sales; initial coin offerings; ICO; information asymmetry; signaling theory; human capital; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The emergence of blockchain technology enables entrepreneurs to raise capital in an innovative way, by addressing a crowd of online investors without the need for an intermediary. This phenomenon is known as token sales, and it may have the potential to revolutionize entrepreneurial finance. READ MORE

  3. 2. Puzzles of the crowd: Investors' perceptions of information asymmetry and agency problems in equity crowdfunding

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Anton Löwstedt; Michael Pihl; [2019]
    Keywords : Agency theory; Equity crowdfunding; Financial intermediaries; Information asymmetry;

    Abstract : Equity crowdfunding is an emerging type of financing, providing small firms with a new source of capital and small private investors with new investment opportunities. Thereby, large crowds of small private investors are introduced to a context suggested to be particularly informationally opaque and where agency challenges exist. READ MORE

  4. 3. She's Back(ed) in Business: A Study About Gender Differences in Crowdfunding Outcomes

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Michelle Tran; Ebba Nordahl; [2019]
    Keywords : Crowdfunding; Gender Differences; Fundraising; Overconfidence; Risk aversion;

    Abstract : Lack of accessible financing has been a main challenge faced by entrepreneurs worldwide, which particularly has inferred barriers for female entrepreneurs in their pursuit for pre-seed capital. In recent years, a disruptive and rapidly growing funding method for start-ups using the Internet to gather a crowd of amateur investors has developed - Crowdfunding. READ MORE

  5. 4. Exploring financing decision making in Swedish family firms : An outlook on crowd equity

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Henrik Johansson; David Tingåker; [2018]
    Keywords : Family Business; Family Firms; Crowd Equity; Social Emotional Wealth; FIBER;

    Abstract : Family businesses and financial decision making is a growing topic of research. It is of value given the impact family businesses have on many economies. Family businesses are regarded to have it more difficult to attain feasible financing and also being led by another logic compared to non-family businesses. READ MORE

  6. 5. Innovative Business Models for Distributed PV in Brazil

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Can Soysal; [2017]
    Keywords : PV; Brazil; business models; distributed generation; crowd-funding; peer-to-peer; Business and Economics; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Most of the increase in world electricity demand until 2030 is expected to come from developing countries (IRENA, 2016) and transition to carbon free energy production technologies offers the opportunity to reduce the negative effects of this increase. With majority of the low and middle income countries located in the areas of favourable solar radiation, PV technology is likely to become a key source of energy in these countries. READ MORE