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...

The paper offers a new explanation for the widely observed use of redeemable and convertible preferred stock in venture capital finance. Redeemable and convertible preferred stocks can be used to endogenously allocate cash flow and control rights as a function of the state of nature, the...

Die vorliegende Arbei behandelt auf der Basis gängiger Annahmen in der Literatur zur Wagniskapitalfinanzierung ein neoklassisches Modell der Preisbildung. Im Gegensatz zu den bestehenden vertragstheoretisch motivierten Modellen werden variierende Wettbewerbsverhältnisseberücksichtigt.

Die vorliegende Ausarbeitung hat die systematische Aufarbeitung von Techniken der risikobasierten Kapitalallokation zum Ziel. Bevor jedoch diese Techniken im Detail behandelt werden, ist es notwendig, eine Erläuterung der dabei zugrunde liegenden Kapitalkonzeption vorzunehmen sowie auf die auf...