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Crowdfunding and Entrepreneurship
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Crowdfunding and Entrepreneurship

by Ignatius Ekanem, Steve Ideh
December 2023
Beginner
296 pages
10h 45m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Crowdfunding and Entrepreneurship

5 Reducing the risk of information asymmetry in crowdfunding

DOI: 10.4324/9781003193975-5

Learning objectives

  • Discuss the meaning of information asymmetry
  • Discuss the challenges of information asymmetry on crowdfunding
  • Explore how information asymmetry can be mitigated to achieve crowdfunding success
  • Examine the role of feedback in resolving information asymmetry in crowdfunding

Introduction

In recent years, crowdfunding has become a veritable source of finance for entrepreneurship, providing entrepreneurs the opportunity to draw on small contributions from a large number of people (the crowd) through the internet to fund their ventures (Belleflamme et al. 2014). This new source of entrepreneurial finance has started an expanding academic ...

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ISBN: 9781003801450