Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social … experience tend to raise more venture capital at an early round of financing and tend to complete the early round much more … experience appear to raise more venture capital. This implies that skills acquired from any previous founding experience can make …

Our paper investigates how the type of work experience gained from prior paid employment influences the path to … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas … management and same sector experience both increase the likelihood for new ventures. Our findings are relevant for policymakers …