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  • Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction

Equity Financing

By: Paul Gompers and Joshua Lerner
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Abstract

Equity financing for entrepreneurial firms has attracted increasing attention in both the popular press and academic literature. The dramatic growth in the venture capital industry in the past two decades has been accompanied by new academic research that explores its form and function. Angel financing, while less well understood, is also attracting attention. At the same time, many of the questions that are most critical to policy-makers remain unanswered. Thus, this chapter has a two-fold role: To summarize and synthesize what we do know about equity finance or entrepreneurial firms from recent research, and to indicate the important questions that we cannot yet answer.

Keywords

Angel Investors; Financing and Loans; Equity; Venture Capital; Business Startups

Citation

Gompers, Paul, and Joshua Lerner. "Equity Financing." In Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction, by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch, 267–298. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
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Paul A. Gompers

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Josh Lerner

Entrepreneurial Management
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