Nowadays knowledge on the link between crowdfunding and entrepreneurial team characteristics is rather limited. In order to fill this research gap, in this report author tries to study the characteristics of the team members behind the startups that launch equity crowd funding as a financial source. This could be beneficial for policy makers as well as crowdfunding managers to predict the result of any launched campaign. Their characteristics are studied from two perspective. Firstly, which features in individuals make them more eager, confident and potentially able to develop a new business idea and launch it through equity crowd funding platforms. Secondly, whether their characteristics such as level of education, international education background, different types of working experiences and previous entrepreneurial experience will help them to have a successful campaign and raise target amount of financial resource or not. For this purpose, the information of more than 500 startups in Great Britain that launched equity crowdfunding between 2014-2017 and their founders, have been collected. The main sources for these data are public platforms such as LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com 2019). According to the outcomes of this research, having working experience, university degree and previous entrepreneurial experience affects the ability of individuals on launching their business ideas in form of startups and raising money through equity crowdfunding. However, above the mentioned characteristics do not have direct effects on success rate of an equity crowd funding campaign (ECC). While having international experience in terms of studying in a university outside of Great Britain can help founders to have successful ECC.
Oggigiorno le conoscenze sul legame tra le caratteristiche del crowdfunding e quelle del team imprenditoriale sono piuttosto limitate. Al fine di colmare questa lacuna di ricerca, in questo rapporto l'autore cerca di studiare le caratteristiche dei membri del team delle startup che lanciano finanziamenti di crowdfunding come fonte finanziaria. Ciò potrebbe essere vantaggioso per i responsabili delle politiche e per i gestori di crowdfunding per prevedere il risultato di qualsiasi campagna lanciata. Le loro caratteristiche sono studiate da due prospettive. In primo luogo, quali caratteristiche degli individui li rendono più desiderosi, fiduciosi e potenzialmente in grado di sviluppare una nuova idea imprenditoriale e lanciarla attraverso piattaforme di crowdfunding. In secondo luogo, se le loro caratteristiche, in particolare il livello di istruzione, formazione internazionale, diversi tipi di esperienze lavorative e precedenti esperienze imprenditoriali li aiuteranno ad avere una campagna di successo e ad aumentare la quantità di risorse finanziarie target o meno. A tal fine, sono state raccolte le informazioni di oltre 500 startup in Gran Bretagna che hanno lanciato il crowdfunding azionario tra il 2014-2017 ei loro fondatori. Le fonti principali per questi dati sono piattaforme pubbliche come LinkedIn ([http://]www.linkedin.com 2019). Secondo i risultati di questa ricerca, avere esperienza lavorativa, laurea e esperienza imprenditoriale precedente influenza la capacità delle persone di lanciare le loro idee imprenditoriali in forma di start-up e raccogliere fondi attraverso il crowdfunding azionario. Tuttavia, al di sopra delle caratteristiche citate non hanno effetti diretti sul tasso di successo di una campagna di crowdfunding (ECC). Pur avendo un'esperienza internazionale in termini di studio in un'università al di fuori della Gran Bretagna può aiutare i fondatori ad avere successo ECC.
Effects of team members' characteristics on running an equity crowdfunding campaign
MALEKIAN, GITI
2018/2019
Abstract
Nowadays knowledge on the link between crowdfunding and entrepreneurial team characteristics is rather limited. In order to fill this research gap, in this report author tries to study the characteristics of the team members behind the startups that launch equity crowd funding as a financial source. This could be beneficial for policy makers as well as crowdfunding managers to predict the result of any launched campaign. Their characteristics are studied from two perspective. Firstly, which features in individuals make them more eager, confident and potentially able to develop a new business idea and launch it through equity crowd funding platforms. Secondly, whether their characteristics such as level of education, international education background, different types of working experiences and previous entrepreneurial experience will help them to have a successful campaign and raise target amount of financial resource or not. For this purpose, the information of more than 500 startups in Great Britain that launched equity crowdfunding between 2014-2017 and their founders, have been collected. The main sources for these data are public platforms such as LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com 2019). According to the outcomes of this research, having working experience, university degree and previous entrepreneurial experience affects the ability of individuals on launching their business ideas in form of startups and raising money through equity crowdfunding. However, above the mentioned characteristics do not have direct effects on success rate of an equity crowd funding campaign (ECC). While having international experience in terms of studying in a university outside of Great Britain can help founders to have successful ECC.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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