Alliances offer benefits such as access to capital, knowledge and markets. Yet, due to their lack of legitimacy, entrepreneurial firms find it challenging to engage in alliances. Thus, it is important to examine which factors may drive alliance formation for entrepreneurial firms. and we examine...

This paper investigates how venture capitalists' involvement in new ventures affects the likelihood of entrepreneurial exit, either via an acquisition or an initial public offering. We examine the prominence of VCs, the number of VCs invested in a company, as well as the timing, duration 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...