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Microbreweries and finance in the rural north of Sweden — a case study of funding and bootstrapping in the craft beer sector [PDF]

Research in Hospitality Management, 2019
This paper explores the growth of the craft beer sector in a northern Swedish rural setting, with a particular focus on how small-scale brewers manage to fund their activities and ventures.
Wilhelm Skoglund
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Financial bootstrapping: external financing dependency alternatives for SMEs

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis, 2019
The sensitivity of external financing is the main issue in developing small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in general. A similar problem is also experienced by several batik small and medium enterprises in Central Java, Indonesia.
Maria Rio Rita
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The role of financial technology and entrepreneurial finance practices in funding small and medium-sized enterprises [PDF]

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2022
PURPOSE: The traditional sources of financing (bank loans) cannot be treated as an essential source of financing for SMEs in developing countries. For this reason, this group of entities uses many alternative sources, from bootstrapping to microfinance ...
Piotr Łasak
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BANK EFFICIENCY AND FINTECH-BASED INCLUSIVE FINANCE: EVIDENCE FROM DUAL BANKING SYSTEM

Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2023
This paper examines the relation between fintech-based inclusive finance and bank efficiency using annual unbalanced data of 318 banks from 7 dual-banking countries over the period of 2011 to 2020.
Hasanul Banna, M Kabir Hassan, Hassan Bataineh   +2 more
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Digital Literacy as a Mediator Between Digital Finance Adoption and Financial Inclusion Among SMEs in Oyo State, Nigeria

Southeast Asian Business Review
The study investigates the mediating role of digital literacy in the relationship between digital finance and financial inclusion among SMEs in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Ademola Samuel Sajuyigbe, Nwoye James Obi, John Tawiah Oladapo, Emmanuel Aderinola Adegun, Adewumi Ramat Adedoyin, Abimbola Tolulope Dunsin   +5 more
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BOOTSTRAPPING THE COST MODELLING OF HYDROPOWER PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: CASE OF CHINESE FINANCED PROJECTS

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2020
In last decades, many scholars have studied the cost of hydropower plants based on the capacity and head. The different correlation equations obtained depend mostly on geographical locations and electro-mechanical characteristics. As Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the largest untapped hydropower potential, coupled with the need of expansion
Desire Wade Atchike, Zhenyu Zhao, Geriletu Bao   +2 more
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Beyond Bootstrapping a Comprehensive Analysis of Entrepreneurial Finance Strategies in the Contemporary Business Landscape [PDF]

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
The intricate landscape of entrepreneurial finance, extending its focus beyond traditional bootstrapping methods. In an era characterized by diverse funding options, this study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the myriad strategies employed by entrepreneurs to finance their business ideas. The investigation encompasses an examination of established
Debajyoti Sarkar, Sambhu Rabidas -
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Quantum computational finance for martingale asset pricing in incomplete markets. [PDF]

Sci Rep
A derivative is a financial asset whose future payoff is a function of underlying assets. Pricing a financial derivative involves setting up a market model, finding a martingale (“fair game”) probability measure for the model from the existing asset ...
Rebentrost P, Luongo A, Cheng B, Bosch S, Lloyd S.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

ANN Activation Function Estimators for Homomorphic Encrypted Inference

IEEE Access
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computations on encrypted data, facilitating machine learning inference in sensitive environments such as healthcare and finance.
Mhd Raja Abou Harb, Baris Celiktas
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The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Small Business Economics, 2021
AbstractBootstrap financing refers to measures that entrepreneurial ventures undertake to preserve liquidity (e.g., reducing expenses, collecting receivables, delaying payments, preselling). Prior research shows that bootstrap financing is an important enabler for the growth of resource-constrained early-stage ventures.
Block, Joern H., Fisch, Christian, Hirschmann, Mirko   +2 more
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