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Woychuk, James Arthur. "The biblical relationship between stars and angels." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Kešner, Martin. "Business Angels v České republice." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165917.
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This dissertation thesis concentrates on Venture Capital in the form of Business Angel investments in innovative companies in the Czech Republic. Primarily, the general knowledge of the Business Angel investments among entrepreneurs and students, the utilization rate of angel investments and the terms of cooperation between investors and entrepreneurs were analyzed. The main objective of this work is to design a methodological procedure of optimal cooperation between Business Angels and innovative entrepreneurs that has had a positive impact on the prosperity of all stakeholders. The theoretical framework summarizes the importance of Venture Capital as a source of funding new and innovative technology companies. Moreover, it focuses on realized research concerning angel investment in the USA and Great Britain. The primary research was realized in the form of interviews with investors and entrepreneurs, who had raised capital from Business Angels. As well, was realized five year long research among the students of universities all over the Czech Republic via questionnaire. Based on the analysis of secondary research and results from qualitative and quantitative research, were designed a normative model, descriptive model and methodology of cooperation between Business Angels and entrepreneurs. The proposed models and methodology respect the international practice, and the outputs have been tailored to the Czech environment as well.
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Rodriguez, Emily M. "Angel Financing: Matching Start-Up Firms with Angel Investors." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/136.
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The hardest time to receive financing for a venture is at its earliest stage. These ventures are among the riskiest investments for an investor, which creates a gap in financing that is often bridged through a source of funding called Angel Financing. Angel investors are one of the best providers of early stage funding. This thesis will explain what angel investing is, how they work, and what angels look for. This information will help entrepreneurs be better equipped to find an angel investor for their venture.
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Sundholm, Maria. "Delaktighet och digitalt utanförskap hos äldre i Angered, Göteborgs stad." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17274.
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I denna studie presenteras digital delaktighet och utanförskap hos äldre i Angered, Göteborg. 1,1 miljoner svenskar står idag utanför internet och den största anledningen till det är hög ålder. Sverige är, liksom många andra länder, i en utveckling mot ett digitalt samhälle. Kontakt med myndigheter, vården eller sociala relationer är i ett skifte att bli allt mer digitaliserat, men är hela samhället redo för en sådan utveckling?<br>In this study, digital participation is presented in elderly people living in Angered, Gothenburg. 1.1 million Swedes are excluded from the internet and the biggest reason for that is age. Sweden, like many other countries, is in a development towards a digital society. Contact with authorities, healthcare or social relations is in a shift to become increasingly digitalized, but is the entire society ready for such development?
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Karlsson, Gabriel, Elin Johansson, and Mathias Arwidsson. "BUSINESS ANGELS IN SWEDEN : The entrepreneur as an Investment Project and Capital Seeker." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-588.
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<p>Bakgrund</p><p>Entreprenörer som startar nya företag kommer troligtvis att behöva antingen kapital, eller kompetens i hur ett företag drivs, men mest sannolikt är att de behöver både och. Affärs-änglar är individer som investerar sina privata pengar mestadels i företag som befinner sig i en utvecklingsfas eller en tidig tillväxtfas. Affärsänglar kan också bidra med icke-finansiella resurser till företag såsom kompetens, färdigheter, kunskap och erfarenhet.</p><p>Problem/Syfte</p><p>Vad kan entreprenörer som är i behov av både kapital och kompetens göra för att hitta den ”rätta” affärsängeln, hur kan entreprenören attrahera denna, samt vilka faktorer är avgö-rande för att en arbetsrelation med en affärsängel ska bli lyckad? Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån entreprenören som investeringsobjekt så väl som kapitalsökare, beskriva olika faktorer som entreprenörer kan beakta för att öka sina möjligheter till att inleda och genomföra ett lyckat samarbete med en affärsängel.</p><p>Slutsats</p><p>Vi fann ett antal faktorer som kan påverka utgången av en arbetsrelation med en affärsäng-el. Dessa är den personliga relationen, att entreprenörens behov stämmer överens med vad affärsängeln kan erbjuda, överensstämmande avsikter, och ett väl genomarbetat aktieägar-avtal.</p><br><p>Background</p><p>Entrepreneurs who start a new venture will probably need either capital, or competence in how to run a business, but most likely they need them both. Business angels are individuals who invest their private money in companies in a start-up or early growth phase. Business angels can also contribute non-financial resources to companies such as competence, skills, knowledge and experience.</p><p>Problem/Purpose</p><p>What can entrepreneurs who are in need of both capital and competence do to find the “right” business angel, how can they attract these investors, and which factors are decisive for a successful working relationship with a business angel? The purpose of this thesis is, with a starting point in the entrepreneur as an investment project and capital seeker, to de-scribe a number of factors entrepreneurs can consider in order to increase their possibilities in initiating and carrying out a successful working relationship with a business angel.</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>The authors found a number of factors affecting the outcome of a working relationship with a business angel. These are the personal relationship, a match between the entrepre-neur’s needs and the business angel’s competence, an agreed agenda, and a thoroughly worked out shareholder agreement.</p>
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Tursch, Enrico. "Beteiligungsfinanzierung bei technologischen Start-up-Unternehmen Vertragsgestaltung von Business- Angel- Finanzierungen." Hamburg Diplomica-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994721528/04.
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Bolf, David. "Private Equity jako alternativní forma investování." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-224443.
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The diploma thesis deals with the different ways of investment in Private Equity. The work is focused on investment decision making, investment process and due diligence. In the analytical part, the author evaluates the results of the questionnaire, which focuses on the factors of investment decision. Factors that investment decisions are divided into three categories examined by the author.
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Grosser, Tomáš. "Metoda budování IT start-upu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201684.
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The present thesis focuses on founding and evolution of information technology startups. Special attention is given to the personality of the founder and the options of financing a startup in the Czech Republic. A survey among the students of the University of Economics, Prague regarding the general awareness of the issues related to the founding of a startup and the main obstacles to it is an integral part of the thesis. The main contribution of the thesis is a method for building up the IT startups, which may serve as a hand-book for potential future founders. As a secondary contribution, this thesis serves as a compact overview of the issues related to startups, especially to the person of the founder and financing possibilities in the Czech Republic.
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Young, Stephen L. "They will shine like the stars of heaven early Jewish angelic resurrection and exaltation-of-the-righteous traditions in the Hellenistic matrix /." Philadelphia, PA : Westminster Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.036-0393.
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Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-139).
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Sibanda, Zenzo. "Angel networks as a business start-up financing option in South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002780.
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The following study is about business angels financing small business start-ups. It explores the aspect of starting up an entrepreneurial venture in which the entrepreneur seeks to secure start-up finance from lenders, raising the various issues that are known to characterise this engagement between the entrepreneur and the lender. Using the phenomenological paradigm, the study seeks to determine the awareness of small scale financing by entrepreneurs in South Africa, to determine the most commonly used source of start-up business funding in South Africa, to assess the extent to which business angel financing could be used to finance businesses in South Africa and to determine the factors impacting the use of business angel financing in South Africa. From these objectives, the study will also seek to determine the extent to which business angel networks could facilitate the financing of business start-ups. Small businesses invariably come up in different policy spheres as the main avenues to social and economic construction across national and regional lines. The importance of a successful business start up to a growing economy should not be underestimated. In line with this is the particular factor of gaining access to start up capital, which continues to emerge as a leading contributor to the success or failure of business start ups. Studies continue to verify that the most common challenge faced by most emerging entrepreneurs is start-up capital, either in the lack of this capital, the unfavourable conditions surrounding its availability, the lack of assets to serve as collateral for its use or the ambiguous flow of crucial information between lenders and providers of finance in the funding relationship (Abor and Biekpe, 2006: 69;Hernandez-Trillo, Pagan and Paxton, 2005: 435, ISPESE, 2005: 7, CDE, 2004: 5; Musengi 2003: 11). Roger Sorheim (2005: 179) refers to business angels as private individuals who offer risk capital to unlisted companies that are struggling to obtain start up capital to finance their business ideas. Business angels are further defined as high net-worth bearers of substantial private capital who predominantly invest in the early stage of high risk high potential return business ventures with a positive further growth potential. Business angel finance is typically a ‘once-off’ early stage form of small firm financing compared to the more frequent later stage venture capitalist funding. Studies show that business angels represent an underutilised wealth creation mechanism when it comes to small firm start-ups as most business angels contribute expertise in addition to finance to the start-ups they get involved in. This brings valuable business insight to the commercialisation of a good business idea. The business angel network exposes a range of potentially viable business prospects to willing investors by facilitating the flow of information about entrepreneurs and their businesses, thereby eliminating ambiguity, information asymmetry and transaction costs (Aernoudt and Erikson, 2002: 178; Van Osnabrugge and Robinson, 2000:374; Macht, 2006:1; Ehlrich, De Noble, Moore and Weaver, 1994:70; Sorheim, 2005:179). To achieve a holistic approach to a phenomenon which appears to be relatively new in South African business circles, the study will follow a qualitative approach in which two categories of populations will be used, one of small business operators and the other of business angels in South Africa. In the study, 20 small business operators and five business angels in Grahamstown will be approached using the convenience and snowballing sampling methods respectively. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews will be used as a data collection method and content analysis will be used as a data analysis tool (Collis and Hussey, 2003:156, Driver, Wood, Segal and Herrington, 2001:32, National Small Business Act ). There has been very limited research on business angels in the South African context, therefore the study would significantly contribute in entrepreneurship, government and small business development circles as it brings about attention to what the researcher predicts is an underutilised business start-up financing option.
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Fernandes, Tânia Sofia da Costa. "A tomada de decisão dos Venture Capitalists e dos Business Angels : critérios e factores decisórios." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6814.
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Mestrado em Ciências Empresariais<br>Este trabalho pretende identificar e analisar quais são os critérios mais importantes
utilizados pelos Business Angels e pelos Venture Capitalists no processo de tomada de decisão de investimento às start-ups, e posteriormente, compará-los, de forma a verificar se existem diferenças significativas entre os dois tipos de investidores. Para tal recorreu-se à aplicação de um questionário enviado por email, no qual foi solicitado aos participantes que classificassem a
importância dos critérios propostos com base numa escala do tipo Likert de cinco pontos, de nada importante a muito importante. No total, foram submetidas 15 respostas, 10 por parte dos Venture Capitalists, e 5 provenientes dos Business Angels. A análise dos dados foi efetuada com recurso à estatística descritiva e as hipóteses foram testadas com base em testes não paramétricos. Os resultados indicam que, para os dois tipos de investidores, os critérios mais importantes dizem respeito aos aspetos relacionados com o produto.<br>This study pretends to identify and analyze the most important criteria used by the Business Angels and the Venture Capitalists in the investment process to start-ups, and then, compare them, in order to verify whether there are significant differences between the two types of investors. To this end was used a questionnaire sent by email with a Likert scale with five points,
(between “not important at all” and “very important”), where the investors were asked to rate the importance of the proposed criteria. In total, 15 responses were submitted, 10 by the Venture Capitalists and 5 from the Business Angels. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and hypotheses were tested using non-parametric tests. The findings show that, for the two types of investors, the most important criteria are related to the aspects of the product.
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Habrnal, Marek. "Faktory hodnoty start-up projektů pro investory v České republice a metody oceňování." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-204783.
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The main objective was to create a normative model of determining the value of early stage for companies in the seed and start up stage. The model should be applicable to entrepreneurs and investors, taking into account the assessment of the value of qualitative factors. Another aim was to identify the significant factors affecting the value of early stage companies in the seed and start up stage, i.e. at a time when there are no or very little revenues. Based on a research among investors and other experts on the valuation of early stage companies and venture capital, the most significant factors were not only identified, but also determined by their weight. The quality of evaluating investment opportunities has a major impact on the profitability of the investor´s capital. Current knowledge of the key value drivers and the mechanisms of valuation can help businesses to set realistic expectations when trying to raise capital to finance the startup of the project. It is therefore necessary to provide a clear methodological framework applicable to both parties of investing. The actual research was divided into two phases - individual interviews with investors and questionnaires. It was confirmed that the most crucial factors are those associated with quality management and company founders.
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Cáceres, Silva Brian Johnny. "Implementación de convenios de accionistas de Vesting en las Start Up peruanas en etapas tempranas a fin de lograr un ambiente favorable para la inversión de los business angels en el ecosistema emprendedor." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/15696.
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El presente trabajo de investigación atiende al crecimiento exponencial del fenómeno
Start Up en el Perú en respuesta a su estrecha relación con las nuevas tendencias
mundiales de innovación y tecnología. Al respecto, dadas las particularidades propias
del mundo de la innovación, la Start Up debe de encontrarse estrechamente vinculados
con distintos agentes que forman parte de un ecosistema emprendedor de los que se
sirve en sus distintas etapas evolutivas. Precisamente, en las etapas tempranas, la Start
Up debe de afrontar los momentos más cruciales debido al riesgo inherente que enfrenta
el surgimiento de su idea innovadora, siendo que requiere de recursos económicos que
la materialicen. Para ello, en este ecosistema emprendedor existen agentes privados
interesados en inyectar capital a la Start Up a través de la adquisición de acciones
llamados business angels; sin embargo, las Start Up no cuentan con mecanismos
autorregulatorios que les permitan crear un mejor ambiente para la inversión, toda vez
que no prevé la posibilidad de que uno de los fundadores del equipo de la Start Up que
no esté completamente comprometido con la sociedad, decida retirarse de la misma
pero manteniendo su propiedad proporcional (participación accionarial sobre la misma),
generando efectos no deseados para los fundadores y los inversores. En respuesta a
ello, la Ley General de Sociedades faculta a los socios accionistas para que, en el marco
de su esfera íntima de libertad contractual y dentro de los márgenes impuestos por las
normas imperativas y estatuarias; puedan celebrar contratos entre ellos que permitan
autorregular determinadas situaciones de la la vida interna de la sociedad. Así, bajo este
contexto y en respuesta a la problemática planteada, resulta conveniente que las Start
Up implementen un convenio de accionistas denominado “vesting”, el cual permite
generar estabilidad en la Start Up en las etapas tempranas, debido a que obliga a los
fundadores a tener una permanencia en la misma bajo un esquema de consolidación de
sus acciones; permitiendo un ambiente más agradable para la inversión de los
denominados business angels o inversores ángeles.<br>Trabajo de investigación
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Renyard, Pär. "Process för utvecklingsprojekt i tidig fas." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209040.
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The lack of coherent and established methods and processes for evaluating early-stage development projects presents a severe challenge for both investors and entrepreneurs. For investors, the lack of an established process risks making every investment decision “ad hoc”, and in the long run prevent any meaningful analysis or comparison between different investments. For the entrepreneur, it makes the fundraising process a maze of seemingly random information requests from potential investors and a constant lack of understanding of where in the process they are, what is required to reach a decision and where to focus their efforts. This thesis describes these challenges in more detail together with some general background of the tools available today. It continues to outline a generalized process for reaching an investment decision, together with descriptions of the different information artifacts that are central to the process. The result is a step-by-step process that can be predicted and iterated between the entrepreneur and the investor. In each step, focus is on a certain piece of information and the goal is to make it clear to all parties what is expected in each step and why.<br>Avsaknaden av en koherent och vedertagen process för att utvärdera utvecklingsprojekt i tidig fas presenterar and allvarlig utmaning för både investerare och entreprenörer. För investerare, bristen på en etablerad process riskerar att varje investeringsbeslut tas på ”ad-hoc” basis, vilket i det långa loppet omöjliggör meningsfull analys och jämförelse mellan olika investeringar. För entreprenören så gör det processen att söka investeringskapital till en labyrint av slumpmässiga informationsförfrågningar ifrån potentiella investerare och en konstant brist på förståelse för var i processen de befinner sig, vad som krävs för att nå beslut och vart de skall fokusera sitt arbete. Denna rapport beskriver dessa utmaningar i mer detalj, tillsammans med viss generell bakgrund om de verktyg som finns att tillgå idag. Den fortsätter med att beskriva en generaliserad process för att nå ett investeringsbeslut och de informationsartefakter som är centrala för processen. Resultatet är en steg för steg process som är förutsägbar och som kan itereras mellan entreprenören och investeraren. I varje steg ligger fokus på en specifik informationsdel och målet är att göra det tydligt för alla inblandade vad som förväntas i varje steg och varför.
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Cohen, Laurence. "Le co-investissement par des Business Angels et des Capital-investisseurs dans les jeunes entreprises technologiques et trajectoires de croissance : approche en termes de gouvernance d'entreprise et études de cas comparatives." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3073.
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En phase d’amorçage, les jeunes entreprises technologiques à la recherche de ressources pour financer leur développement peuvent solliciter les business angels (BAs) et capital-investisseurs (CIs). Notre recherche porte sur le type d’investissement (BAs seuls, BAs et CIs en co-investissement séquentiel ou simultané) mis en œuvre et amène la question de la nature et de la qualité des relations et interactions entre les différentes catégories d’investisseurs et l’entrepreneur, dans le sens où ces investisseurs peuvent influencer la dynamique de croissance et être à leur tour influencés par cette dynamique. Celle-ci suppose que les rythmes et l’intensité des trajectoires de croissance des jeunes pousses de haute technologie n’ont rien de déterministes, mais se développent de façon dynamique dans le champ de l’interaction entre les principaux apporteurs de ressources. Nous mobilisons conjointement la théorie d’agence et les approches cognitive et effectuale pour analyser le co-investissement par BAs et CIs. Nous avons mené une étude de cas multiples à visée comparative auprès de trois jeunes entreprises de la région Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne. Nous avons montré que, quand les schémas cognitifs des BAs et/ou de l’entrepreneur sont proches de celui du CI, les relations et interrelations peuvent se déployer à moindre coût cognitif en phase préinvestissement et que le co-investissement séquentiel ou simultané peut prendre place. Nos résultats révèlent qu’un financement par BAs est associé à une trajectoire de croissance plus lente et qu’un co-investissement séquentiel permet de stabiliser la trajectoire de croissance sans pour autant que l’entreprise rencontre une très forte croissance. Nous mettons aussi en évidence que lorsque les BAs et/ou les CIs perçoivent le fort potentiel de croissance de la jeune entreprise, très tôt dans le processus d’investissement, les CIs ont avantage à intégrer les BAs qui ont une expérience spécifique comme leur passé entrepreneurial et leur connaissance du secteur. L’approche prédictive de ces trois acteurs : entrepreneur, CIs et BAs favorise la mise en œuvre d’un un co-investissement simultané. Dans ce contexte, les investisseurs (BAs et CIs) peuvent être des partenaires actifs au côté de l’entrepreneur et contribuer à ce que la jeune entreprise rencontre une trajectoire de croissance forte voire d’une hyper-croissance<br>In their seed, young technological ventures seeking resources to finance their development may seek business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs). Our research shall include the type of investment (only BAs, BAs and VCs in sequential or simultaneous co-investment) implemented and this leads to the question of the nature and the quality of the relations and interactions among various categories of investors and the entrepreneur, in the sense that these investors may influence the dynamic of growth, and be themselves influenced by that dynamic. It implies that the pace and intensity of the venture growth of the young technological ventures do not have any kind of determinism, but they develop rather in a dynamic manner within the field of the interaction between the main providers of resources. We jointly mobilize agency theory and cognitive and effectual approaches in order to analyse the co-investment of BAs and VCs. We conducted a multiple-case study with a comparative aim concerning three young companies of the Rhône-Alpes Region. We have shown that, when the cognitive schemes of the BAs and / or the entrepreneur are close to that of the VC, the relations and interrelations can occur to a lesser cognitive cost during the pre-investment phase and that the sequential or simultaneous co-investment may take place. Our results indicate that a funding by BAs is associated with a slower venture growth and that a sequential co-investment allows the stabilisation of the venture growth without a very high growth for the company. We are also highlighting that when the BAs and / or the VCs recognize the high growth potential of the young company very early in the investment process the VCs really need to integrate the BAs who have a specific experience, like their entrepreneurial past and their knowledge of the sector. The predictive approach of these three stakeholders: entrepreneur, VCs and BAs promotes the implementation of a simultaneous co-investment. In this context, the investors (BAs and VCs) can serve as active partners alongside the entrepreneur and help ensure that the young company follows a high venture growth, or even a hyper growth
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Koppitz, David. "Využití rizikového a rozvojového kapitálu pro podporu začínajících inovativních podniků v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223659.
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Innovation entrepreneurship is built not only on a quality idea, but also on the availability of start-up capital and management skills of the idea owner. The insufficient finance often limits the success and growth potential of start-ups. When seeking support to individual business plans, allowing for entry of a business angel could be an option. Business angels are private, mostly experienced investors who invest in SMEs with high growth potential not only financial capital, but also business know-how, contacts and management experience. Thesis evaluates possibilities to use venture capital offered by business angels to support innovative start-ups and on several case studies assesses readiness of innovation and business environment from the investors’ point of view.
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Ciocan, Mircea Valentin. "The impact of business Angels on the successfulness of start-ups." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19403.
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Founding new companies, often referred to as start-ups, require a substantial amount of
money and experience in order to take the right decisions to ensure future growth. The first
source of investments (followed by the founder’s own resources) are the famous 3 Fs (Friends,
Family and Fools) followed by Business Angels (BAs). The latter source turns out to be the most
important one for start-ups to ensure their survival during their early company stages. BAs can
be defined as “an individual and wealthy investor, who aims to support young companies by
financing them as well as giving strategical recommendations based on their personal
experience”. However, how does a founder know which BA is the right investors for his or her
venture? What are the important factors a start-up owner has to look for when searching for the
right BA? This thesis investigates experience factors of BAs that tend to be important for young
ventures with regard to their successfulness. Therefore, the following research investigates what
the important value-adding experience factors a BA has to contribute are. For this purpose, the
following research question (RQ) will be answered: “What are the important value-adding
experience factors a business angel has to contribute to a start-up in order to be successful?”
The research makes use of a logistical regression while using a dataset provided by the AIPPProject
by the Kauffman foundation in the US. The results of this thesis show, that the only
relevant experience factor of BAs that has an influence on the successfulness of the young
company is years of experience within the operating industry of the start-up. All other experience
factors investigated (educational background of the BA, number of previously founded
companies and the initial amount invested (in US Dollars)) do not have significant impacts on
the successfulness of the start-up. Consequently, young founders shall primary choose their
respective BAs based on their experiences in the respective industry.
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Holtmann, Angela [Verfasser]. "The s-tame dimension vectors for stars / vorgelegt von Angela Holtmann." 2003. http://d-nb.info/967597013/34.
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Hsu, Wei-Cheng, and 徐偉政. "Survey on Pop-Up Book Design and Structure Applications on the Animated Creation "Angel Star"." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88250817986928305167.
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碩士<br>國立臺南大學<br>動畫媒體設計研究所<br>102<br>In recent years, with the popularity of pop-up books and booming mass media, elements of those performance characteristics from pop-up books are also applied in some TV commercials, film and animation productions. When creating pop-up books animations, one needs to understand the style of story pagination of the physical book, as well as its structure categories in order to make pop-up book animations represent the substance of physical pop-up books.
In this study, we first explored the categories, story designs and structure applications of physical pop-up books, then tried to understand how to implement a story into the content of a pop-up book. We used case study method to make reference between the story design and structure applications of the pop-up book animations and physical pop-up books, along with the conclusive analysis of performance characteristics of pop-up book animations. We found the following results:（1）More common grounds were found on story design approaches, which showed a regular corresponding of story design for both physical pop-up books and pop-up book animations.（2）Less common grounds were found on structure applications for both pop-up book animations and physical pop-up books, which showed the integrated analysis of the study in the structure applications of pop-up books could be provided as references for creators, who could flexibly apply based on the needs of their creating moments. (3）Pop-up book animations could be used by means of simulating real environment characteristics of the animated elements, to enhance atmosphere of the story, and could be presented through animations of hard paper in a 3D way, making it surreal for characters to look realistic, or making expression changes in the character's facial features.
This research will collate the study results in the application of creating "Angel Star" animations, and compile the entire creating process and this researcher’s methods, to provide references for pop-up book animations creators in the future.
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Lopes, Mafalda Sofia Agostinho. "Business Angels em Portugal: preferências setoriais, proximidade geográfica e desenvolvimento regional." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/3295.
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O presente estudo tem como principal objetivo o estudo de algumas das motivações de investimento dos Business Angels, referidas na literatura, em Portugal. Em particular, a verificação da importância do setor de investimento, a proximidade geográfica entre o empreendedor e o investidor e o desenvolvimento regional na escolha do empreendedor. Para tal, utiliza uma amostra de 304 investimentos efetuados por 51 sociedades veículo de anjos portugueses no âmbito do projeto FINOVA, de 2008 a 2016. Recorrendo a testes não paramétricos foi possível verificar que, os Business Angels portugueses não investem em todos os setores na mesma proporção, preferem investir em Regiões de Desenvolvimento Inferior e proveem, na sua maioria, de Regiões de Desenvolvimento Superior. Não foi possível, porém, confirmar que os anjos portugueses preferem investir em empresas que sejam geograficamente próximas, pelo que a proximidade geográfica, de acordo com os resultados do estudo, não tem importância na escolha dos investidores, o que poderá ser resultado da reduzida dimensão do país.
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Ottavia and 黃美雅. "Capital Investment Decision for Business Start-ups in the Core Creative Industries: A Business Angels’ Perspective in Visual Arts." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04051300727187324453.
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博士<br>國立成功大學<br>創意產業設計研究所<br>100<br>Creative industries have been acknowledged as the key driver of economic growth and capital investment is the fundamental component to develop businesses in creative industries. In practice, there are institutional sources of capital investment to seek, such as banks and venture capitalist. However, in fact, they tend to be difficult for businesses in creative industries to access for fund; especially for start-up, young companies due to the barriers of evaluating the potential of intangible products and services; formal investment procedures and requirements. On the other hand, business angels tend to invest in start-up businesses and those intangible knowledge-based businesses which are avoided by the formal investment institutions. The study aims to illustrate the capital investment decision for start-up businesses from the business angels’ perspective. Furthermore, this study intends to reveal the underlying factors of capital investment decision and outline the capital investment phenomena in creative industries, taking visual arts as a case.
This study combined qualitative (in-depth interview) and quantitative method (survey) to investigate business angels’ capital investment decision in the core creative industries. There were in total 159 valid responses from the survey. The quantitative results were confirmed by interviews with business angels.
The important findings of this study are as follow: 1) four capital investment decision criteria from the business angels’ perspective were identified – the artist’s passion, trustworthiness, creativity, and marketability; 2) the capital investment decision criteria were found to have positive relationships to business angels’ perception on the potential benefits they will receive; 3) a strong and significant relationship was found between investor’s benefits and willingness to invest, with stronger influence from financial benefits than strategic benefits; 4) business angels’ knowledge and familiarity to the industry was found to influence their evaluation process.
This study was one of the first attempts to formulate the capital investment decision criteria for business start-ups in the core creative industries, taking the business angels’ perspective on visual arts. The findings were hoped to bring a holistic view and bridge the gap between artists and business angels.
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Giaquinto, Luisa Herck. "Angel, seed and founders influence on fintech funding: an emerging market context." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/70654.
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This study examines the difference between FinTechs that received private equity
and venture capital finance with those that did not receive. We test this with a
sample of 2,524 companies across 76 countries over 2008-2018. We find that
country-specific determinants of start-up funding are also relevant to FinTechs.
Furthermore, companies in financing and payments categories are more likely to
receive funding. We show a positive relationship between having received an
angel and a seed round with follow-on finance, and a negative relationship with
having a single founder. The impact of the seed finance and the single founder is
weaker in an emerging market.
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Marçal, Bernardo Miguel Camilo. "Business angels and accelerators : do they look for the same criteria when investing in early stage ventures?" Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29261.
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Entrepreneurship has been a crucial field for the advancement of the worldwide economy as the entrepreneurial ecosystem is responsible for a large part of the innovation produced globally.
However, for ventures in their infant stages, access to capital is a limitation. At the very initial stage, the ventures really on bootstrapping but these funds are often limited. Therefore, in order to make ventures grow, firms need to raise external capital since, as these firms are just starting, recurring to debt and specially banks is very difficult.
Two of the most commonly used financing sources at this stage are Business Angels and Accelerators. Thus, it is very important to understand what are the criteria these two investment vehicles consider more relevant when investing, as the majority of the ventures fail at this stage of development.
After reviewing the existent literature, a survey was conducted in order to understand the criteria Business Angels and Accelerators consider more important. The survey had a total of 39 participants. The results of the study indicate that the entrepreneur and the team are very important factor however, it was not possible to prove that it is the most important for early stage investors. Nonetheless, it was proved the financial information related to the venture is highly value for Business Angels and Accelerators.<br>O empreendedorismo tem sido uma área crucial para o desenvolvimento da economia mundial pois o ecossistema empreendedor é responsável por grande parte da inovação produzida globalmente.
No entanto, para empresas em fase embrionária, o acesso ao capital é limitado. Aquando da criação da empresa, os empreendedores recorrem a capital pessoal no entanto, esses recursos são, muitas vezes, finitos. Posto isto, para que a empresa consiga crescer, é necessário obter capital externo. Nesta fase inicial da empresa, recorrer a dívida ou a bancos, é extremamente difícil.
Duas das fontes de financiamento mais utilizadas nesta fase são os Business Angels e Accelerators. Neste sentido, é muito importante entender quais são os critérios que estes dois tipos de investidores consideram mais relevantes quando investem em empresas na sua early stage dado que a maioria das empresas fecham quando se encontram nesta fase de desenvolvimento.
Depois de analisar a literatura existente, foi realizado um questionário para entender os critérios que os Business Angels and Accelerators consideram mais importantes. A pesquisa teve um total de 39 participantes. Os resultados deste estudo indicam que o empreendedor e a equipa revelou ser um fator muito importante, no entanto, não foi possível provar que é o mais importante para investidores em empresas em early stage. Ainda, foi possível verificar que a informação financeira relacionada com a empresa é muito valorizada pelos dois tipos de investidores.
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Kopřivová, Marie. "Andělé v Bibli. Role andělů v biblických textech." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-296402.
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The Diploma thesis Angels in the Bible. The role of angels in biblical texts tries to describe the role of angels in the Bible based on the contexts containing the term angel. Then it analyzes and briefly characterizes individual texts of the Old and New Testament in which the term angel occures. With the help of this analysis it is possible to observe what role did the angels serve: they announced the birth of a son, God's election, God's commands, they become the life savers, leaders and protectors of the Israel nation and executors of God's punishment. An angel - interpreter acts in the apocalyptic texts. In the New Testament, angels also announce the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist, announce the God's will to people, they announce the resurrection and protect the church similarly to Israel. The most angels figure in the Book of Revelation and they play all roles known from apocalyptic literature: angel - interpreter, angel - guardian, as well as angels who participate on the heavenly council and effect the judgement according to the God's commands.