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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Gompers, Paul - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466069
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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach
Gans, Joshua S. - 2020
A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging technological trajectories as a source of competitive advantage. But, if the potential for a technology is given by the fundamental character of a given technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481344
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Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
Bai, Jessica; Bernstein, Shai; Dev, Abhishek; Lerner, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510623
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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191001
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479519
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479602
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Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship
Ashraf, Nava - 2019
segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480311
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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480322
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019
. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480392
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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share
Hopenhayn, Hugo - 2018
The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481030