It was established in 1991 as The Journal of Small Business Finance.

From 1996 to 2000 it had the title The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance with Bill Petty (Baylor University) as the editor.

From 2002 to 2007 the journal was housed at Syracuse University under the name The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures with Allan Young as editor.

Since 2008 The editor-in-chief has been James C. Brau (Brigham Young University).

It is abstracted and indexed in ProQuest databases, EconPapers, Cabell's International, and RePEc.