Financing High-Tech Startups

Tackles emerging trends of technology venture development and investment Combines new institutional economics and behavioral economics with startup financing to identify concrete signaling strategies

Provides an accessible framework and insights for startup founders and high-tech investors

Tackles emerging trends of technology venture development and investment Combines new institutional economics and behavioral economics with startup financing to identify concrete signaling strategies Provides an accessible framework and insights for startup founders and high-tech investors

Autorentext
Robin P. G. Tech is a researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. He is the principal investigator of a research group that focuses on the entrepreneurial exploitation of the 'internet of things'. Prior to this, Robin studied Economics and Corporate Management at Zeppelin University (BA),Technology, Sociology, & Management (MSc) in Stockholm, and completed his MBA in Hong Kong. In his non-academic life, Robin is the co-founder of AtomLeap, a high-tech focused startup. He also worked in venture capital (2007), held a consulting position at the curating office Buro17 in Moscow (2009), worked for AUDI on inductive charging systems (2010-2011) and at the European Commission's EIT Labs (2012-2013) in the field of business modeling for renewable energies.

Inhalt
Introduction: High-Tech Startup Financing.- Theory: The Liability of Complexity.- Methodology: Mixed Methods Approach.- Study I: Survey of German Startups.- Study II: Interviews with Entrepreneurs and Investors.- Framework: Matching Signals with Complexities of High-Tech Strartups.- Discussion: Why Signals Can Help to Overcome the Liability of Complexity.- Conclusion: Taming Complexity.- Appendix.