participate, and over 50% of them are entrepreneurs. We then exploit an identification strategy by comparing the entrepreneurial …

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill …. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and … for entrepreneurs without a successful track record. Similarly, more experienced venture capitalists are able to identify …

article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young. The mean founder age for … successful entrepreneurs …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …