Angel group members’ decision process and rejection criteria: A longitudinal analysis
Abstract This paper investigates business angel group members’ decision-making from project submission to the final decision. Using a Canadian group’s archival data on 636 proposals, we provide a detailed longitudinal analysis of the decision process. The rejection reasons generally refer to market and execution risk; this finding holds for every step of the process for proposals that pass the pre-screen. Angel group members focus more on market and execution risk than agency risk, similar to venture capitalists. Inexperienced entrepreneurs are rejected for market and product reasons. Decision-making by the studied angel group members differs from that generally described for independent angels.
- Journal or Publication:
- Journal of Business Venturing
- Authors:
- cecile Carpentier
Jean-Marc Suret - Tags:
- Status:
- publish
- Year Published
- 2015
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