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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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well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant … characteristics but falls for R&D and patenting. Controlling for finance, motivations, and industry reduces all coefficients, but for …
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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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, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural … identify the RAE effects. The youngest students are 5.4% less likely to become an entrepreneur compared to the oldest within …
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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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The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …
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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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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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-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the novice, but also opens firms that are larger in terms of the initial …
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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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