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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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that apply for angel funding (and those that are ultimately funded) is inversely correlated with the entrepreneurship …
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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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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 … entrepreneurial finance …
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We use equity crowdfunding data to ask how fundraising amounts can be explained by what entrepreneurs ask for, versus … what investors want to invest. The analysis exploits unique features of crowdfunding where entrepreneurs not only set …
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Angel investor tax credits are used globally to spur high-growth entrepreneurship. Exploiting their staggered … evidence that direct subsidies to firms have positive effects, raising concerns about promoting entrepreneurship with investor …
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show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new …
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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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Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a new mechanism for entrepreneurial finance, with parallels to initial … public offerings, venture capital, and pre-sale crowdfunding. In a sample of more than 1,500 ICOs that collectively raise $12 …
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