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Identifying Crowdfunding Key Success Factors in Nonprofit Sector
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Maleki, Ali (Supervisor)
Abstract
Social problems are growing rapidly while the resources including financial resources, available for third sector organizations are insufficient. Besides terms such as Social Innovation and Social Entreprenurship that concern effectiveness and efficiency of approaches trying to solve social problems, new forms of finance has been emerged in the fileld of Social Finance in order to increase the amount and diversity of fianacial resources available for social organizations in different stages of their lifecycle. Crowdfunding is a new form of finance that emerged due to 2008 economic crisis of America in order to increase the access of Entrepreneurs, Innovators and SMEs to financial resources....
Crowdfunding Platform for Academic Research Projects on the Blockchain Platform
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Habibi, Jafar (Supervisor)
Abstract
The emerging blockchain technology has introduced a new approach in today's industry, creating new opportunities in technical, financial, and economic domains. With the emergence of blockchain-based platforms such as Ethereum and the capability of smart contracts, the possibility of creating decentralized systems has arisen. One of the most popular decentralized systems in the realm of finance is crowdfunding platforms that assist technical and academic projects in need of capital for industrialization. Startups or research-academic projects secure the necessary funding by selling initial offering tokens to both small and large-scale investors. In this research, we aim to present an...