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Ethan Mollick
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 47
Citations - 7460
Ethan Mollick is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Seed money. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 42 publications receiving 6546 citations. Previous affiliations of Ethan Mollick include Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure
TL;DR: This article found that personal networks and underlying project quality are associated with the success of crowdfunding efforts, and that geography is related to both the type of projects proposed and successful fundraising, while the vast majority of founders seem to fulfill their obligations to funders, but that over 75% deliver products later than expected, with the degree of delay predicted by the level and amount of funding a project receives.
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The dynamics of crowdfunding: An exploratory study
TL;DR: This article found that personal networks and underlying project quality are associated with the success of crowdfunding efforts, and that geography is related to both the type of projects proposed and successful fundraising, while the vast majority of founders seem to fulfill their obligations to funders, but that over 75% deliver products later than expected, with the degree of delay predicted by the level and amount of funding a project receives.
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Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
TL;DR: It is suggested that crowdfunding can play an important role in complementing expert decisions, particularly in sectors where the crowds are end users, by allowing projects the option to receive multiple evaluations and thereby lowering the incidence of "false negatives."
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Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
Ethan Mollick,Ramana Nanda +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the degree to which the crowd differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and whether the crowd is even rational in making funding decisions, and find significant agreement between the funding decisions of crowds and experts.
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Establishing Moore's Law
TL;DR: It is the entry of foreign competition that seems to have played a critical role in maintaining the pace of Moore's law in the early VLSI transition, as many different kinds of chips used many competing logic families.