This paper tests the tenets of institutional theory by means of an empirical study of the contractual strategies applied in the Swedish venture capital industry. Venture capitalists differ in, for example, their preferences for early or later stage investments. Some have more experience than...

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of three important techniques; factor, cluster and discriminant analysis. I find it necessary and more important to have an understanding of the basic assumptions and the underlying foundations of the methods rather than a thorough mathematical...