Use of financial bootstrapping in new businesses: A question of last resort?

Venture Capital

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-83

  Winborg, Joakim ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business incubators; Financial bootstrapping; Motives; New businesses; Quantitative study

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449245572     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060802351248     Document Type: Article

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