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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Evidence on Inheritance and Capital Constraints
Blanchflower, David - 1990
The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …
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Amateurs Crowds & Professional Entrepreneurs as Platform Complementors
Boudreau, Kevin J. - 2018
Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs--or both. What can a platform owner do to implement these outcomes? I document evidence on mobile app developers showing that just small, incremental changes in platform...
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017
Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
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