Recent research has documented new ventures’ activity in acquisitions, and we build upon this work and the M&A literature, in order to compare the acquisition performance of new ventures and established firms. The central rationale for our work is that new ventures hold distinct resources and...

In this paper, we theorize that venture capital (VC) backed initial public offerings (IPOs) attract more attention than non-VC-backed IPOs, as VCs offer important signals to investors searching for information about entrepreneurial firms. We use a measure developed by Google (i.e., Trends) to...