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Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2009
important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …
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The roles of immigrants and foreign students in US science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Ganguli, Ina (ed.); Kahn, Shulamit Beth (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research / Workshop <2018, … - 2020
Introduction / Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie --I. Location choices of international students and … and Chungeun Yoon --III. Immigration and entrepreneurship.Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high … characteristics, preferences, and employment outcomes of native and foreign science and engineering PhD students /Michael Roach, Henry …
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Venture Capitalists' Access to Finance and Its Impact on Startups
Chen, Jun; Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
impacted states, thus exacerbating the geographic disparity in high-growth entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629431
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Young Firms, Old Capital
Ma, Song; Murfin, Justin; Pratt, Ryan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Across a broad range of equipment types and industries, we document a pattern of local capital reallocation from older firms to younger firms. Start-ups purchase a disproportionate share of old physical capital previously owned by more mature firms. The evidence is consistent with financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616636
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Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation
Nanda, Ramana - 2015
show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457389
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Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2013
It is not surprising that the financing of early-stage creative projects and ventures is typically geographically localized since these types of funding decisions are usually predicated on personal relationships and due diligence requiring face-to-face interactions in response to high levels of...
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Venture Debt
Morse, Adair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The provision of venture debt financing to growth-oriented startups which are backed by venture capital (VC) equity has been a bit of a puzzle given the lack of positive cash flows or traditional collateral of such startups. This short paper lays out the hurdles for debt to overcome to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512037
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Show Me the Right Stuff : Signals for High Tech Startups
Conti, Annamaria - 2011
We present a theoretical model of startup signaling with multiple signals and potential differences in external investor preferences. For a novel sample of technology incubator startups, we empirically examine the use of patents and founder, friends, and family (FFF) money as such signals,...
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The Unicorn Puzzle
Davydova, Daria; Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Sanz, Leandro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Funding Black High-Growth Startups
Cook, Lisa D.; Marx, Matt; Yimfor, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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