Microcredits and peer-to-peer lending as financing tools for start-ups in Germany

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance grade: 13 The FOM University of Applied Sciences Hamburg (Wirtschaftswissenschaften) language: English abstract: Both alternative financing models microcredit and p2p lending opened huge possibilities to support so-called unbankables on their way out of poverty unemployment and social exclusion. How they work what impact they have on the German start-up endeavour and which kind of obstacles still remain that they need to overcome will be investigated in the paper at hand.