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culture and the personality structure of successful entrepreneurs. Following an international comparison of enterprise birth …
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culture and the personality structure of successful entrepreneurs. Following an international comparison of enterprise birth …
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VC market. We theorize and empirically document that entrepreneurs' human capital background and venture …
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from an angel investor is independent of the entrepreneurs' gender and initial asking valuation. However, consistent with …
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Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs …, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which should potentially reduce the occurrence of … entrepreneurs, who are of particular interest, the findings indicate that they cut back their financing demand and are more likely …
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Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs …, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which should potentially reduce the occurrence of … entrepreneurs, who are of particular interest, the findings indicate that they cut back their financing demand and are more likely …
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Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form corporate ventures. Based on a sample of corporate and independent ventures in German manufacturing, we show that corporate ventures are more innovative than the control group, i.e. the...
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Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that … nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their … innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes …
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Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...
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