increases the rate of entrepreneurship. The effect is stronger for entrepreneurs who incorporate their business, especially for …We study what type of entrepreneurs are affected by financial constraints. Our identification strategy exploits age … effect is more pronounced for entrepreneurs in the top quintile of the firm size distribution across all businesses and in …

entrepreneurs' interactions with different categories of private equity investors, namely business angels (BAs) and formal venture … that growth paths depend strongly on the entrepreneurs being more or less able to simultaneously leverage BAs' and VCs …' financial as well as cognitive resources. The entrepreneurs ‘capability to do so, is shown to be dependent on their specific …

game' and are thus highly committed to business success. Despite its key role in practice, the entrepreneurs' own financial … entrepreneurs with comparatively more ex ante financial commitment in their project achieve significantly higher funding success …

from an angel investor is independent of the entrepreneurs' gender and initial asking valuation. However, consistent with … paribus. These results hold when controlling for important entrepreneur and firm characteristics that may strongly impact the …