Financing the celtic tigress: Venture financing and informal investment in Ireland

Venture Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-88

  O'Gorman, Colm ^a,d   Terjesen, Siri ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Business angels; Female entrepreneurs; Informal venture capital; Ireland; Nascent entrepreneurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 32944476865     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060500453742     Document Type: Review

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