The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure

By Ethan Mollick. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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A Theory of Crowdfunding - A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard (2017, background): “In particular, Mollick (2014) finds little evidence of fraud in reward-crowdfunding, indicating that, consistent with our results, this type of crowdfunding is able to handle potential moral hazard problems.”
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts (2016, unknown): “For updates, we follow Mollick (2014) and only measure whether projects were updated in the first three days after launch, reducing the risk that updates are a reaction to success.”
Demand-driven securities regulation: evidence from crowdfunding (2013, unknown): “Other types of crowdfunding platforms include donations, rewards based, and lending (for a description, see Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb 2011; Ahlers et al. 2012; Belleflamme, Lambert, and Schwienbacher 2010, 2013; Bradford 2012; Burtch, Ghose, and Wattal 2012;Griffin 2012;Mollick 2012; Schwienba”
Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding (2016, background): “Successful online crowdfunding is often defined by the amount of money raised, influenced mainly by the nature of personal networks, project quality and geographic location (Mollick, 2014).”
An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets (2013, unknown): “greater attention, many aspects of crowdfunding have yet to receive rigorous examination (Mollick 2012).”
The economics of crowdfunding platforms (2015, background): “For a di¤erent view and some discussion on how to de ne crowdfunding, see Mollick (2014).”
Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success (2017, methodology): “Mike Wright is a close association between the social capital of entrepreneurs and the success of their campaigns (Agrawal, Catalini, & Goldfarb, 2011; Colombo, Franzoni, & RossiLamastra, 2015; Mollick, 2013).”
Swept Away by the Crowd? Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs (2013, unknown): “almost all projects make a serious effort at achieving their goals (Mollick, 2013).”
Crowdfunding models: Keep‐It‐All vs. All‐Or‐Nothing (2019, unknown): “The rise of crowdfunding has been facilitated by standardized Internet platforms which enable clear mechanisms through which investors can invest in early-stage entrepreneurial firms (Mollick, 2014; Belleflamme et al., 2013, 2014).”
The language that gets people to give: phrases that predict success on kickstarter (2014, background): “Other parallel studies using quantitative approach have found that higher funding goals and longer project durations lead to lower chances of successful funding on crowd-funding platforms like Kickstarter [34, 35].”
Is the crowd sensitive to distance?—how investment decisions differ by investor type (2017, unknown): “See also, e.g., Colombo et al. (2014), Mollick (2014), and Moritz and Block (2016) for comprehensive reviews of current crowdfunding literature.”
Signaling in Equity Crowdfunding (2015, unknown): “equity crowdfunding (although for related work on crowd financing, see Schwienbacher and Larralde, 2010; Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb, 2011; Burtch, Ghose, and Wattal, 2013; Mollick, 2014; and Colombo, Franzoni, and Rossi-Lamastra, 2014).”
Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding (2014, unknown): “In the technology and design categories on Kickstarter, estimates suggest that more than 50% of products are delivered late (Mollick 2013).”