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This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …
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management influences their firm's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high …
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, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort … 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 …
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A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … in advance of observing the ultimate growth outcomes associated with any cohort of start-ups (nowcasting). We implement … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the …
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in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
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firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in …
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A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging …
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Young firms' contribution to aggregate employment has been underwhelming. However, a similar trend is not apparent in their contribution to aggregate sales or aggregate stock market capitalization. We study the implications of the arrival of "low marginal - high average" revenue-product-of-labor...
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Venture capital (VC) backed firms face neither the governance requirements nor a major separation of ownership and control of their public peers. These differences suggest that independent directors could play a unique role on private firm boards. This paper explores the dynamics of VC-backed...
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