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Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two … taxable goods and services in the state of Texas. An entrepreneur is defined as the owner of a new business. A serial … entrepreneur is one who opens repeat businesses. The success of the business is measured by the duration over which the business is …
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entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
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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 … well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …
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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 social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …
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Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …
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We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using micro data from the US Census Bureau …. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans … effects (i.e., that people with more valuable homes are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to …
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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 …-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the novice, but also opens firms that are larger in terms of the initial …
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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...
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With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
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