Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics -
Investment and Finance, University of applied sciences, Nürnberg,
language: English, abstract: This work is divided into different parts.
The first part Framework and theoretical background introduces the
business life cycle concept and the definition of the basic terms Start
Up, finance and investment. Furthermore the first part presents briefly
the different types of financing. The second section Financing sources
of Start Ups goes much depper into the different financing types for
Start Ups by differencing according to equity financing, debt financing,
internal and external financing. The third part Categorization of Start
Ups attempts to find similarities in the different business models of
Start Ups in order to segment the Start Ups. The fourth chapter Results
tries to match the results of section two Financing sources of Start Ups
and section three Categorization of Start Ups in order to answer the
research question. The last section Conclusion will complete and limit
the entire work and will give recommendation for further research.