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Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors’ Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bernstein, Shai; Mehta, Kunal; Townsend, Richard; Xu, Ting - 2022
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the … experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded … recently. We find that the same startup receives significantly more interest when information about top-tier investors is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296439
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Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bernstein, Shai; Mehta, Kunal; Townsend, Richard; Xu, Ting - 2022
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the … experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded … recently. We find that the same startup receives significantly more interest when information about top-tier investors is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013301009
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How Does Feedback Impact New Ventures? Fundraising in a Randomized Field Experiment
Wagner, Rodrigo Andres - 2017
treatments. This paper is the first randomized experiment testing how unsolicited written feedback impacts fundraising of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127886
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The Hidden Cost of Accommodating Crowdfunder Privacy Preferences : A Randomized Field Experiment
Burtch, Gordon - 2016
Online crowdfunding has received a great deal of attention from entrepreneurs and policymakers as a promising avenue to … increased visibility and traceability of transactions. Many crowdfunding platforms therefore provide mechanisms that enable a … (privacy) control mechanisms on crowdfunder behavior. Employing a randomized experiment at one of the world's largest online …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006065
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583687
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
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Learning to let go : A field experiment on benchmarking and entrepreneur exit
Hou, Yun; Png, Ivan P. L. - 2022
Entrepreneurs are reluctant to exit. How does information about peers, specifically, benchmarking, affect exit? To investigate this question, we carried out a randomized controlled trial of benchmarking among 194 food-stall owners in Singapore. Both control and treatment owners were informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085179
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Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship : A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels
Gornall, Will; Strebulaev, Ilya A. - 2020
We study gender and race in high-impact entrepreneurship using a tightly controlled randomized field experiment. We … sent out 80,000 pitch emails introducing promising but fictitious start-ups to 28,000 venture capitalists and angels. Each … email was sent by a fictitious entrepreneur with randomly assigned gender and race. Female entrepreneurs received 9% more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109451
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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies … complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348405
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675518