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Crowdfunding as a financial instrument for startups

Term Paper, 2015

28 Pages, Grade: 1,3

Steven Wolf (Author)

Excerpt

Table of Content

List of Figures

1 Introduction
1.1 Problem
1.2 Aim
1.3 Procedural method

2 Crowdfunding
2.1 Definitions: crowd, funding, crowdfunding, crowdinvesting
2.2 Forms of crowdfunding
2.3 Crowdfunding and Crowdinvesting
2.4 Functionality
2.5 Historical Development

3 Actors of crowdfunding
3.1 Capital-seeking companies (startups)
3.1.1 Reasons and aims
3.1.2 Selection of the form and conditions
3.1.3 Selection criteria of crowdfunding from the view of capital seeking companies (startups)
3.2 Investors
3.2.1 Who are the investors?
3.2.2 Reasons and aims – intrinsic
3.2.3 Participation in the profit and accretion – monetary
3.3 Financial intermediary (platforms)
3.3.1 Aims
3.3.2 Remuneration model

4 Advantages and risks
4.1 Overview
4.2 Startups – advantages
4.3 Startups – disadvantages and risks
4.4 Investors – advantages
4.5 Investors – disadvantages and risks

5 Current examples of successful Crowdfunding projects (practice examples)
5.1 Reward based
5.2 Equity based
5.3 Lending based
5.4 Donation based

6 Conclusion

References

Internet References

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Title: Crowdfunding as a financial instrument for startups
College: The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
Grade: 1,3
Authors: Steven Wolf (Author)Eugen Kraemer (Author)
Year: 2015
Pages: 28
Catalog Number: V305910
ISBN (eBook): 9783668040601
ISBN (Book): 9783668040618
File size: 572 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Crowdfunding, Crowdinvesting, Finance and Accounting, Startup, Finanzierung, Investment, Investition, Financial instrument, Finanzierungsinstrument, Crowdfunding forms

Quote paper: Steven Wolf (Author)Eugen Kraemer (Author), 2015, Crowdfunding as a financial instrument for startups, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/305910

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