Browsing by Author "Laffey, Des"

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    • Against the Odds? A Case Study of Betfair.com 

      Laffey, Des (Senate HallDublin, 2005)
      Betfair can claim to be Britain's greatest dot com success story. Launched in 2000 its radical innovation was that it enabled people to bet (wager) directly against each other thus cutting out the dominant bookmakers. ...

    • Opportunity or threat? The views of bankers towards crowdfunding 

      Laffey, Des; Durkin, Mark; Cummins, Darryl; Gandy, Anthony (Senate HallDublin, 2021)
      Crowdfunding has emerged as an innovative source of finance for start-ups and small and medium sized enterprises. This paper considers the views of the most important source of small business finance, retail banks, on ...

    • Special Issue Editorial: What have we learnt about Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy? What do we still need to know? 

      Laffey, Des (Senate HallDublin, 2021)
      The sharing economy is a topical subject for academics, policy makers and practitioners. This Special Issue makes a contribution to the field of entrepreneurship by covering what has already been researched and also ...

    • Special Issue: E-Commerce/Web 2.0 and Entrepreneurship: Where Next? Editorial 

      Laffey, Des (Senate HallDublin, 2009)
      Entrepreneurship is integral to E-Commerce with many dominant Internet firms still relatively young. After the collapse of the dot com bubble e-commerce has become an established aspect of business and many entrepreneurial ...

    • The Rise and Fall of the Dot Com Enterprises 

      Laffey, Des (Senate HallDublin, 2004)
      This paper looks at the dot com phenomenon drawing mainly on examples from the USA where the boom started and was most pronounced, but also from the UK which had a number of high profile dot coms. It starts by asking the ...

    • Web 2.0: New World or Old Hype? 

      Laffey, Des (Senate HallDublin, 2009)
      Web 2.0 was added to the complex vocabulary of the Internet in the first decade of the new millennia. It is a nebulous term which has been used to describe some of the most prominent recent entrepreneurial ventures of the ...