Despite the increasing importance of business angels (BAs) as crucial players in growth high-potential early-stage startups, their motivations are not fully understood. Many perceptions BAs deviate significantly from more conventional views economic and financial models. To gain a comprehensive understanding BAs’ goals, qualitative techniques marketing consumer behaviour additional lenses (incl...

The literature about informal investors, persons who individually invest in new and expanding entrepreneurial endeavors, has grown considerably over the past decade. Most of the results, however, are based on methodologies which do not include a randomly selected sample of respondents. Proper sampling procedures are necessary for the literature to grow beyond the case-dependent, descriptive wor...

holy quran introduces angels as managers of entire world in amonotheistic manner. based on holy quran they have differentactions and are catalyst of god. in holy bible, some of theideas related to role of angels are similar to holy quran; but inmany cases, it shows different or even contradictorydescription. so it can not demonstrate a right quide to real roleof angels. in this study, researche...

In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which ‘little helpers’ service their master’s will. It look...