Angles on angels: Financing technology-based ventures-a historical perspective

Venture Capital

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-287

  Freear, John ^a   Sohl, Jeffrey E ^b   Wetzel, William ^b  

^a Whitte more School of Business and Finance   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Funding gap; Informal venture capital market; Investment risk; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991041589     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369106022000024923     Document Type: Article

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