Financing of small businesses: Are Mars and Venus more alike than different?

Venture Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-107

  Arenius, Pia ^a   Autio, Erkko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business services; Financing; Women business owners

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646350547     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060500433793     Document Type: Article

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