A typology of angels: A better way of examining the informal investment phenomena

Entrepreneurship and SME Research: On its Way to the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 65-80

  Coveney, Patrick ^a   Moore, Karl ^b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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