This text offers an analysis of the venture capital market for entrepreneurial firms and provides policy-makers with critical thinking on the role of government in the process of financing new businesses.

This fourth edition monitors SMEs’ and entrepreneurs’ access to finance in 34 countries over the period 2007-13, across an expanded array of indicators, including debt, equity, asset-based finance and framework conditions.

This report monitors SME and entrepreneur access to finance in 37 countries.

Now covering 31 countries, this book documents the financing difficulties of SMES and entrepreneurs and monitors trends in 31 countries, along with government policy responses to deal with these challenges.

"In this essential guide, Karen Berman and Joe Knight customize the approaches and insights from their acclaimed book Financial Intelligence specifically for entrepreneurs. The authors not only demystify common financial terms and tools, they also show how you can use this knowledge to gauge your company's performance and make better decisions."--Back cover.

This is the book that we hope will create a 1000 ventures in Australia! Australian entrepreneurs don't have a lot of time yet they urgently need sources of funding to get their growing businesses off the ground. That's why we've written this book: Time and money. We make sure that it doesn't take much time for an entrepreneur to become fully familiar with the funding environment in Australia. This book is packed with information condensed to a form that a business person can consume easily about how to secure financial backing. It is fully updated more than 300 phone numbers, 150 email addresses, and 160 Web sites for dozens of programmes and venture capitalists in Australia who have money for start-up and expanding enterprises. "If it's what you need, you'll not find a better book (any book)."

This report maps a broad range of external financing techniques to address diverse needs in varying circumstances, including asset-based finance, alternative debt, hybrid instruments, and equity instruments.

This book examines the proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance and how these sources have the potential to make it easier for ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneurial finance literature has developed a rich tradition of research on venture capital and angel finance. However, the emergence of ‘new’ sources of finance – such as crowdfunding – and the limited attention paid to ‘traditional’ debt financing and financial bootstrapping offer opportunities to explore, from different points of view and theoretical perspectives, the challenges that ventures face. The objective of this book is to explore these new and traditional sources of finance; suggest how these phenomena can be better understood conceptually; and guide new ways of understanding the topic in future, especially for researchers. The introduction outlines the new sources of entrepreneurial finance, and in comparing them with more traditional sources, proposes challenges in our conceptual understanding of these new and traditional sources. The subsequent chapters deal with important topics, including looking at the way different funding sources may interact; factors that impede family firms from getting external funding; how best to succeed with equity crowdfunding by looking at pre-selection processes; considering differences in perceptions towards funding sources arising from whether entrepreneurs are native born or immigrants; factors to consider when funding specialized assets in high uncertain sectors such as biotechnology; and the internationalization of business angel activity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Venture Capital journal.

The topic of Entrepreneurial Finance involves many issues, including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, market booms and busts, public policy and international differences in entrepreneurial finance stemming from differences in laws, institutions and culture. As these issues are so extremely broad and complex, the academic and practitioner literature on topic usually focuses on at most one or two of these issues at one time. The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries. It is organized into seven parts, the first of which introduces the issues, explains the organization of the Handbook, and briefly summarizes the contributions made by the authors in each of the chapters. Part II covers the topics pertaining to financing new industries and the returns and risk to being an entrepreneur. Part III deals with entrepreneurial capital structure. Part IV discusses business planning, funding and funding gaps in entrepreneurial finance with a focus on credit markets. Part V provides analyses of the main alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance. Part VI considers issues in public policy towards entrepreneurial finance. Part VII considers international differences in entrepreneurial finance, including analyses of entrepreneurial finance in weak institutional environments as well as microfinance.

A balanced and practical combination of entrepreneurial theory and cases from a Canadian perspective In the newly revised second Canadian edition of Entrepreneurship, a team of entrepreneurs, professors, researchers, and mentors delivers an accessible and insightful combination of business concepts and cases illustrating contemporary entrepreneurial theory. Exploring every stage of the entrepreneurial process, this comprehensive textbook covers everything aspiring Canadian founders and future entrepreneurs need to know, from ideation to funding, launch, marketing, and more. Throughout the introductory text, a wealth of engaging case studies and examples demonstrate the real-world application of business theory. Perfect for students of business administration, management, and entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship offers a hands-on learning experience that will appeal to learners who benefit from an abundance of contemporary real-world cases and practical examples.