Business angels in Germany: An empirical study

Heinrich Stedler and Hans Peters

Venture Capital, 2003, vol. 5, issue 3, 269-276

Abstract: Since the mid-1980s in the USA and since the start of the 1990s in Great Britain, the investment activities of business angels and their motives have been the subject of careful examination through empirical survey and analysis. These evaluations have not been undertaken in Germany. It was assumed that the results from the USA and Great Britain could be applied to the behaviour of German business angels. However, this ignores social and cultural differences between countries. The aim of this study is to close this information gap by providing some basic information on German business angels, notably their motivations and reasons for investing, with the practical objective of highlighting to students how to attract business angels to their own start-ups. The research is based on interviews with more than 230 business angels.

Date: 2003
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