This paper shows the advantages of staged investments for venture capitalists.

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...

Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have moreskills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connectionscould give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital.This paper uses a large...

Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-upfinance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-basedsystems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capitalhas not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct a...

This paper analyzes the relationship between management support offered by venture capitalfirms and the performance of entrepreneurial start-ups. An empirical investigation of a sampleof 129 German start-up companies leads to interesting results: Contrary to commonly statedbeliefs management...

Website der deutschen Tageszeitung "Die Welt". [Redaktion EconBiz]Das kostenfreie Archiv von WELT online beinhaltet alle Artikel, die seit Mai 1995 in der Internetausgabe der WELT erschienen sind. Das kostenfreie E-Paper-Archiv enthält alle Ausgaben von Die Welt und Die Welt am Sonntag seit...

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