Machine generated contents note: pt. I Financing New Industries And The Returns And Risk to Entrepreneurship -- 1.Finance of New Industries / April Shen -- 2.The Returns to Entrepreneurship / Thomas Astebro -- 3.Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity / Frank Fossen -- 4.New Firm Financing and Performance / Sheryl Winston Smith -- pt. II Entrepreneurial Capital Structure -- 5.New Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Capital Structure / David Robinson -- 6.The Capital Structure of Family Firms / Haoyong Zhou -- 7.Influence of Internal Factors on the Use of Equity- and Mezzanine Based Financing in Family Firms / Stephanie Schraml -- pt. III Funding: Planning, Credit Markets, and Gaps -- 8.Planning for Entrepreneurial Finance and Capital: A Critical Review of the Importance of Teaching Business Planning / Benson Honig -- 9.Funding Gaps / Robert Cressy -- 10.Availability of Credit to Small Firms Young and Old: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances / Rebel Cole -- 11.Asymmetric Information, Credit Market Condition, and Entrepreneurial Finance / Song Zhang -- pt. IV Alternative Types of Entrepreneurial finance -- 12.Crowdfunding of Entrepreneurial Ventures / Benjamin Larralde -- 13.Angel Investors and Their Investments / Ramon P. DeGennaro -- 14.Firm Growth, Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital / Michael Peneder -- 15.Why Do Firms Go Public? / James C. Brau -- 16.Valuation of IPOs / Srinivasan Rangan -- 17.Trade Credit and Its Role in Entrepreneurial Finance / Emilia Garcia-Appendini -- 18.Factoring and Invoice Financing / Khaled Soufani -- 19.Project Finance / Alessandro Steffanoni -- 20.Hedge Fund Asset Based Lending / Houman B. Shadab -- pt. V Public Policy -- 21.Business Taxation, Corporate Finance, and Economic Performance / Evelyn Ribi -- 22.Financing Capital among Minority Owned Businesses / Alicia Robb -- 23.Financing Women Owned Firms: A Review of Recent Literature / Alicia Robb -- pt. VI International Comparisons and Microfinance -- 24.International Differences in Entrepreneurial Finance / Inessa Love -- 25.Entrepreneurial Finance in Weak Institutional Environments / David Lingelbach -- 26.Microfinance for Entrepreneurs / Bilal Zia -- 27.The Past and Future of Innovations in Microfinance / R. Øystein Strøm.