The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a shift in entrepreneurial opportunities in the United States. In this paper, we proxy entrepreneurial processes by examining housing prices in different regions of the United States. Housing prices capture the movement in people, tax dynamics, and behavioral...

Crowdfunding is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it rapidly emerged as an integral part of the entrepreneurial finance landscape. In this paper, I provide an overview the crowdfunding phenomenon. I first describe the crowdfunding process, its actors and markets. Then I outline the dynamics...

Cryptocurrency transactions have grown exponentially since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin White Paper on Halloween 2008. As of November 2021, the cryptocurrency market has transformed into an ecosystem with 14,710 tokens and $2.6 trillion market capitalization. The rise of initial coin...

Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to 23%. This same time period...

Crowdfunding is emerging as an alternative form of funding for medical purposes, with capital being raised directly from a broader and more diverse audience of investors. In this paper, we have systematically researched and reviewed the literature on medical crowdfunding to determine how...

Rewards-based crowdfunding (RBC) has recently gained popularity as an alternative means of finance to help entrepreneurs bring novel projects to life. We theorize that crowdfunding backers perceive an implicit psychological contract with campaign creators. When promised rewards fail to...

Because of the recent surge in the number of unicorns and their role in spurring entrepreneurship and social impacts, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and regulators are concerned about how startup firms are valued. This is due to a lack of financial and historical information about startups...

This paper introduces a machine-learning approach to quantify altruism from the linguistic style of documents. We apply our method to a central question in (social) entrepreneurship: How does altruism impact entrepreneurial success? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on...