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impacted states, thus exacerbating the geographic disparity in high-growth entrepreneurship …
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From 2010 to 2021, 639 US VC-funded firms achieved unicorn status. We investigate why there are so many unicorns and why controlling shareholders give investors privileges to obtain unicorn status. We show that unicorns rely more than other VC-funded firms on organizational capital as well as...
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We analyze determinants of access to venture capital for Black founders of high-growth startups. We combine image- and name-processing algorithms with clerical review to identify race for over 100,000 startup founders "at risk" for venture funding. Black founders raise roughly one-third as much...
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This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...
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population. Conditioning on startups that successfully raise external finance has little impact on these gaps. The complexity of … an extensive review of a growing empirical literature in entrepreneurial finance that tests these models. The pattern of … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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initially startling. On the eve of launching equity-based crowdfunding, a new market for early-stage finance in the U.S., we …, the recent rise of crowdfunding - raising capital from many people through an online platform - which offers little … transaction costs, reputation, and market design, can explain the rise of non-equity crowdfunding and offer a framework for …
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self-employment to 23%. This same time period also witnessed declines in "hometown" local entrepreneurship and the …
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The U.S. entrepreneurial finance market has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Entrepreneurs raising their …
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We study how access to high-skill labor affects the outcomes of start-up firms. We obtain exogenous variation in firms' ability to access skilled labor by using win rates in H-1B visa lotteries. Relative to other firms that also applied for H-1B visas, firms with higher lottery win rates are...
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We investigate the link between declining firm entry, aging incumbent firms and sluggish U.S. productivity growth. We provide a dynamic decomposition framework to characterize the contributions to industry productivity growth across the firm age distribution and apply this framework to the newly...
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