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From Capitol Hill To Venture Capital, Singapore Management University
From Capitol Hill To Venture Capital, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
The CEO of Y! Combinator on how a ‘dumb idea’ became the world’s top videogaming community, the core of being an entrepreneur…and pizza
Does The Crowd Support Innovation? Innovation Claims And Success On Kickstarter, Anirban Mukherjee, Cathy L. Yang, Ping Xiao, Amitava Chattopadhyay
Does The Crowd Support Innovation? Innovation Claims And Success On Kickstarter, Anirban Mukherjee, Cathy L. Yang, Ping Xiao, Amitava Chattopadhyay
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Online crowdfunding is a popular new tool for raising capital to commercialize product innovation. Product innovation must be both novel and useful (1-4). Therefore, we study the role of novelty and usefulness claims on Kickstarter. Startlingly, we find that a single claim of novelty increases project funding by about 200%, a single claim of usefulness increases project funding by about 1200%, and the co-occurrence of novelty andusefulness claims lowers funding by about 26%. Our findings are encouraging because they suggest the crowd strongly supports novelty and usefulness. However, our findings are disappointing because the premise of crowdfunding is to support …
God’S Will, The Matrix, And The Chinese Bamboo Tree, Singapore Management University
God’S Will, The Matrix, And The Chinese Bamboo Tree, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Suresh Shankar took the figurative red pill, went down the entrepreneurial rabbit hole and discovered the need to mesh the right-brain with the left
Adapting And Evolving To Grow In The High-Tech Industry, Singapore Management University
Adapting And Evolving To Grow In The High-Tech Industry, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
MatchMove started as a gaming platform; it’s now a flourishing enterprise payment solutions company