# kaal:claim:3962614-021

**Claim.** Alternative early round funding methods frequently fail to provide adequate funding to fully launch a new company, and a significant number of tech startups that rely exclusively on these methods fail.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- startups relying exclusively on alternative early round funding

**Source quote.**

> these methods frequently fail to provide adequate funding to fully launch a new company. A significant number of tech startups that rely exclusively on these methods fail.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu* (2021), III. Alternative Early Round Funding Mechanisms, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614

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**Failure mode.** Inadequate alternative funding  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** innovation

**Keywords.** crowdfunding, startup-failure, funding-adequacy, early-round-funding

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