Essays about: "alternative financing for entrepreneurs"

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  1. 1. Impacts of COVID-19: Funding Business Operations and Adapting Marketing Strategies

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Sejin Hahn; Sarafat Hossain; [2021]
    Keywords : Adaptation; Crisis Management; Financial Liquidity; Access to Capital; Government Aid; Alternative Finance; Marketing Strategy; Resource-based View RBV ; Customer-Centric; Stakeholder View; Brand; Authenticity; Knowledge; Capabilities; Marketing Management; Marketing-Finance Interface; Paid Marketing; Organic Marketing; Customer Loyalty; Community; Decision-Making;

    Abstract : Purpose -- Given the enduring COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis set out to reveal an updated perspective of the service-oriented small business experience, particularly in their access and choice of financial resources to fund operations and adapt marketing strategy. By the time this study started, it was clear which businesses had been rising with the new tides of swelled categorical demand vs. READ MORE

  2. 2. Impact of Overconfidence Bias on Entrepreneurs Financing Decisions : The Case of Growth-oriented Startups in Sweden and Germany

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    Author : Suci Ariyanti; Hayk Mnatsakanyan; [2020]
    Keywords : Startups; cognitive bias; overconfidence; entrepreneurial cognition; capital financing; institutional comparison; entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : Background: Both Authors have many years of finance background and as well as studying entrepreneurship motivated to tackle the less researched area in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs’ behavioural impact on their financial decisions. Such decisions in initial stages of startup formation have a critical impact on company’s future development which raises the importance of understanding the behavioural motives of the entrepreneurs. READ MORE

  3. 3. The True Benefits of Crowdfunding

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Per Pertoft; Kelly Hsieh; [2020]
    Keywords : Reward-based Crowdfunding; Kickstarter; Benefits of Crowdfunding; Financing; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Over the last decade, crowdfunding has become an important tool for entrepreneurs as an alternative source of funding. Defined as a method for entrepreneurs to raise funding from a group of individuals in return for an incentive, reward-based crowdfunding is the main focus of this study and particularly how entrepreneurs perceive the benefits of this form of crowdfunding and the unexpected benefits that they experience after completing a successful campaign. READ MORE

  4. 4. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems’ Impact on Immigrant Entrepreneurship : In Context of Kronoberg Region 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Ana Veljanovski; Arilda Basha; Polina Kuznetcova; [2018]
    Keywords : entrepreneurship; immigrant entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial ecosystem; domains; confrontation; narratives; Kronoberg; Sweden;

    Abstract : The literature argues that the immigrants act in segregated communities and they, in most of the cases, establish low-risk and low return businesses within their ethnic communities. The importance of connecting immigrant entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystems is a challenge to be overcome taking into consideration that the immigrants usually are not involved in it as a consequence of a lack of information about how it can facilitate immigrant entrepreneurship. READ MORE

  5. 5. Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurship; The Influential Factors in Crowdfunding Success for Social Entrepreneurs

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Anna Nyberg; Malin Åberg; [2017-09-15]
    Keywords : Social entrepreneurship; Crowdfunding; Reward-based crowdfunding; Success factors;

    Abstract : Crowdfunding has emerged as an increasingly important and popular alternative to traditional funding, as entrepreneurs often face difficulties in receiving funding from the traditional channels in the vital early stages of a new venture or project. In its simplest form, crowdfunding is the attempts by entrepreneurial individuals or groups to fund a venture or project by tapping a large network of people through the internet for relatively small monetary contributions, without standard financial intermediaries. READ MORE