Entrepreneurial perspectives on informal venture capital

Venture Capital

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-94

  Sætre, Alf Steinar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competent capital; Entrepreneur investor relationship; Informal venture capital; Norway; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345060764     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369106032000062731     Document Type: Review

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