Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development
and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however …

The funding landscape for startups has recently changed significantly. Not only have new
funding partners emerged but established funding partners have also changed their …

We examine a crowdfunding platform that connects artists with funders. Although the Internet
reduces many distance‐related frictions, local and distant funders exhibit different funding …

In this paper, we use a social support perspective and hypothesize that the scope of start-up
activities is positively associated with two types of instrumental family support, financial and …

This paper presents a first–ever empirical examination of the effectiveness of signals that
entrepreneurs use to induce (small) investors to commit financial resources in an equity …

Perhaps the most striking feature of" crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of
investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict …

We focus on new technology-based entrepreneurial ventures engaging in reward-based
crowdfunding and examine the effect of their performance in such funding channel on the …

Why and how do resources provide sources of competitive advantage? This study sheds
new light on this central question of resource‐based theory by allowing a single resource …

This article documents the fact that ventures funded by two successful angel groups
experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: They have improved survival, exits …

Accelerators are a recent yet rapidly growing phenomenon within entrepreneurial
ecosystems. The distinctive characteristics exhibited by accelerators, relative to previous …