Friends or foes? The interrelationship between angel and venture capital markets

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 639-653

  Hellmann, Thomas ^a   Thiele, Veikko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angel investors; Entrepreneurship; Search; Start ups; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924542071     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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