Bootstrap financing and owners’ perceptions of their business constraints and opportunities

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Resourcing new businesses: social networks, bootstrapping and firm performance (2010, unknown): “Fourth, we focus explicitly on businesses in the crucial early years of operation whereas most existing bootstrapping studies are based on established small firms (Carter and Van Auken 2005 ; Ebben and Johnson 2006 ).”
The use of bootstrapping by women entrepreneurs in positioning for growth (2006, unknown): “Approaches to bootstrapping fall generally into four types of activities (Landstrom and Winborg, 1995 ; Van Osnabrugge and Robinson, 2000 ; VanAuken, 2001 , 2005 ; Harrison, et al , 2004 ): 1.”
Small business growth: recent evidence and new directions (2007, background): “In allowing external equity finance, a business owner chooses to relinquish part of their control to either a financial institution or other individuals, and many owners may be opposed to this ( Carter and Van Auken, 2005”