The returns of business angel investments and their major determinants

Venture Capital

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 271-298

  Capizzi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

business angels; determinants of performance; experience; funding gap; holding period; informal venture capital; IRR; rejection rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944905444     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2015.1092264     Document Type: Article

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