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SUMMARY:Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the Ea
 st India Company - Edmond Smith
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Networks have become a key focus for historians in understandi
 ng how early modern society functioned.  In this paper\, I will utilise th
 e idea and methodology of network economics - such as those used by Sanjee
 v Goyal and Andrea Galeotti in their article Influencing the Influencers -
  to examine investment for the foundation of the East India Company at the
  turn of the seventeenth century.   \n\nBetween 1599 and 1601\, members of
  London’s commercial community raised the political support and finances
  necessary to found what rapidly became the largest company in England.  D
 ue to the nature of the trade to Asia\, it was necessary for the company t
 o have both permission to trade with Asia and the cash reserves necessary 
 for sustaining large-scale activities across the globe.  In order to do so
  it was necessary to find significant investment from within London’s co
 mmercial community.  This paper will explore the development of networks w
 ithin the larger community that were dedicated to finding this investment.
   By analysing these networks\, this paper will examine where investment c
 ame from and how key members of the community influenced the pattern of in
 vestment through key nodes\, thereby exploring the effect of networks on t
 he company’s structural development.
LOCATION:Sidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room)\, Newnham College
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