Functioning of Angel Investor Ecosystem in Turkey: A Study on Aegean Region Angel Investors

The Impact of Angel Investors on Founders of New Ventures in the Medical Technology Industry

Founders of new ventures in the medical technology (Medtech) industry require capital to establish, sustain, and grow their companies. Most founders must seek some form of external capital to meet these demands; in Medtech, the most well-known and prestigious of these is venture capital (VC). However, another type, angel investors, may be as important as VCs. Angels are accredited investors tha...

Entrepreneur - Business Angel Relationships

This paper examines the logics and expectations of entrepreneurs and business angels prior to going into a relationship. Comparisons of the entrepreneurs and the business angels show difference regarding their confidence about their own mind-sets and expectations. The findings are discussed taking an institutional approach; an exogenous institutionalism is influencing the actor, as his logic an...

Angel, Devil, and King

More Rigor in Sampling Procedures for Informal Investor Research: Towards Reaching a More Representative Angel

The literature about informal investors, persons who individually invest in new and expanding entrepreneurial endeavors, has grown considerably over the past decade. Most of the results, however, are based on methodologies which do not include a randomly selected sample of respondents. Proper sampling procedures are necessary for the literature to grow beyond the case-dependent, descriptive wor...

Rabies in Foxes, Aegean Region, Turkey

At the end of the 1990s in the Aegean region of Turkey, rabies rapidly spread among foxes. This spread likely resulted from spillover infection from dogs and led to increased rabies cases among cattle. To control this outbreak, oral rabies vaccination of foxes has been used.