{"title":"Business Angels - Who They Really Are?","authors":"Veland Ramadani","doi":"10.1002/JSC.852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/JSC.852","url":null,"abstract":"Business angels invest a large amount of finance in seed, start-up and early stage enterprises. Business angels are very important for small and medium sized enterprises because they provide more than money. They are hands-on investors and contribute their skills, expertise, knowledge and contacts in the businesses they invest in. They are wealthy persons with great business experience. They are willing to invest and offer their wealth and knowledge to owners of small and medium sized enterprises and to entrepreneurs to start or develop their businesses.","PeriodicalId":367224,"journal":{"name":"2007 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship & Innovation Data (Archive)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122410172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minority Venture Capital: Data Overview","authors":"Timothy Bates, W. Bradford","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1024020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1024020","url":null,"abstract":"Available data describe the individual investments the venture capital (VC) funds made from 1989 to 2006 in small, primarily minority-owned businesses. They include annual cash flows measuring both dollar amounts invested and returned. Returns on realized investments are distinguished from returns on partially realized and unrealized investments. Also collected were traits of the VC funds themselves, including their funding sources, traits of general partners, types of involvement with portfolio companies, means used to generate deals, and others. Traits of the individual portfolio firms, in addition to cash flows, include industry, location, and minority-owner indicator variable. Download the slides at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper=1028000 Download the audio file at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper=1029978","PeriodicalId":367224,"journal":{"name":"2007 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship & Innovation Data (Archive)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116327935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}