Financing behavior in new ventures - Evidence from Germany

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Financing is a key issue for starting new ventures as well as for running SMEs or large corporations.However, start ups face some special circumstances restricting their ability to fund financial resources and determining their financial behaviour. This paper intends to analyze the choice of financial resources of business starters with respect to capital structure development in the early business stage. The intention of this paper is to find out what the capital structure of a typical start up is, what causes this structure, and what causes changes in capital structure while doing business in the first three years
after market entry. The results show remarkable high rates of equity financing by founder savings, while outside equity is neglectable. Loans, private debt and leasing are the most important outside sources of capital. The latter two are not only covering a significant amount of initial financing needs. Besides, they experience the strongest decrease in the expansion phase of a new venture. The explanation value of the basic pecking order theory is limited if applicating it to start ups. In contrast to theory, convenient earnings do not induce the substitution of bank financing by equity, and earlier growth do not increase bank financing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research : Challenges for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in the Context of European Enlargement
EditorsTallin University of Technology
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationTallinn (Estonia)
PublisherTallinn School of Economics and Business Administration
Publication date2008
ISBN (print)978-9949-430-18-5
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event15th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research - 2008: Challenges for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in the Context of European Enlargement - Tallin, Estonia
Duration: 21.05.200823.05.2008
Conference number: 15
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/5306248/15th-nordic-conference-on-small-business-research

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