Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will …, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the business stealing effect … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …

investors and 72 entrepreneurs belonging to 54 ventures located either in California or Belgium. Regression analyses indicate … that entrepreneurial intentions to exit are higher for entrepreneurs who face more task and goal conflicts. Angel investors …

Women entrepreneurs are known not only to reimburse loans swifter than men, but also to receive smaller loans. However …

We study how entrepreneurs evaluate the ability of different U.S. venture capitalists (VCs) to add value to start …-up companies. Analyzing a large dataset on entrepreneurs' stated preferences on VCs, we show that entrepreneurs view independent … entrepreneurs are able to correctly identify the VCs with better track record, they do not believe that such VCs have a higher …

VC market. We theorize and empirically document that entrepreneurs' human capital background and venture …

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 …

This dissertation examines the mechanisms by which entrepreneurs successfully raise venture capital. Although there has … been substantial research on the benefits of having venture capital, how entrepreneurs successfully raise venture capital …. Second, building on a number of detailed interviews with the entrepreneurs at and investors in nine of these ventures, I …