IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/cepcnp/462.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Equity crowdfunding: a new model for financing entrepreneurship?

Author

Listed:
  • Saul Estrin
  • Susanna Khavul

Abstract

In recent years, the UK has become a leader in fostering an entirely novel mechanism for raising capital for small business enterprises. Saul Estrin and Susanna Khavul explain how 'equity crowdfunding' works - and the benefits that online financial marketplaces provide for large networks of investors and entrepreneurs.

Suggested Citation

  • Saul Estrin & Susanna Khavul, 2016. "Equity crowdfunding: a new model for financing entrepreneurship?," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 462, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:462
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp462.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cinta Borrero-Domínguez & Encarnación Cordón-Lagares & Rocío Hernández-Garrido, 2020. "Sustainability and Real Estate Crowdfunding: Success Factors," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-13, June.
    2. Rosangela Feola & Massimiliano Vesci & Ezio Marinato & Roberto Parente, 2021. "Segmenting “digital investors”: evidence from the Italian equity crowdfunding market," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1235-1250, February.
    3. Wang, Wanxin & Mahmood, Ammara & Sismeiro, Catarina & Vulkan, Nir, 2019. "The evolution of equity crowdfunding: Insights from co-investments of angels and the crowd," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(8), pages 1-1.
    4. Simon Kleinert & Christine Volkmann & Marc Grünhagen, 2020. "Third-party signals in equity crowdfunding: the role of prior financing," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 341-365, January.
    5. Estrin, Saul & Gozman, Daniel & Khavul, Susanna, 2018. "The evolution and adoption of equity crowdfunding: entrepreneur and investor entry into a new market," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 87351, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. Saul Estrin & Daniel Gozman & Susanna Khavul, 2018. "The evolution and adoption of equity crowdfunding: entrepreneur and investor entry into a new market," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 425-439, August.
    7. Saul Estrin & Susanna Khavul & Mike Wright, 2022. "Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(4), pages 1761-1781, April.
    8. Paschen, Jeannette, 2017. "Choose wisely: Crowdfunding through the stages of the startup life cycle," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 179-188.
    9. Estrin, Saul & Gozman, Daniel & Khavul, Susanna, 2017. "Equity crowdfunding and early stage entrepreneurial finance: damaging or disruptive?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 86590, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    10. Saul Estrin & Daniel Gozman & Susanna Khavul, 2017. "Equity crowdfunding and early stage entrepreneurial finance: damaging or disruptive?," CEP Discussion Papers dp1498, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    crowdfunding; entrepreneurs; business enterprise; taxation; venture capital;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:462. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/centrepiece/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.