Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, , course: Projekt Forschung Crowdinvesting, language: English, abstract: We finished a research work about opportunities and threats of crowdinvesting as a kind of corporate finance for enterprises. The research project started in 2011 and was finished in April 2014. We focussed our work on the crowdinvesting scene in Western Europe, especially in Germany. Because of our own experience in the field of corporate finance and by considering the insights from the previous economic and financial crises we watched the in 2011 in the USA upcoming Crowdfunding phenomenon, followed by the first steps of Crowdinvesting or crowdfinancing done by the online platform in the USA, named kickstarter.
