Crowdfunding success factors: The characteristics of successfully funded projects on crowdfunding platforms

23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015

Volumn 2015-May, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Koch, Jascha Alexander ^a   Siering, Michael ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Funding Success Factors; Kickstarter; Media Richness; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CROWDFUNDING; KICKSTARTER; MEDIA RICHNESS; RECIPROCITY; SUCCESS FACTORS;

FINANCE;

EID: 85007478147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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