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Economic frictions pervade the founding, financing, growing, and exiting of high-growth entrepreneurial firms. This article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender discrimination. I first collect facts from a large empirical...
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VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from the United States' long-running orientation toward entrepreneurship. From nineteenth-century whaling to the multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture capital has been driven by the pull of...
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We analyze determinants of access to venture capital for Black founders of high-growth startups. We combine image- and name-processing algorithms with clerical review to identify race for over 100,000 startup founders "at risk" for venture funding. Black founders raise roughly one-third as much...
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were drastically impacted by COVID-19. We examine all U.S. equity crowdfunding offerings starting with the very first … housing prices post-COVID-19 are a strong predictor of the number of equity crowdfunding campaigns and the amount of capital … raised. The impact of housing price changes on crowdfunding is more pronounced among more prosperous regions. The housing …
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We show that the rise of crowdfunding over the past decade fostered entrepreneurship and output growth in the United … States. We develop measures of crowdfunding activity at the county level based on all projects successfully funded on … funding. Crowdfunding also supports the further development of young businesses by increasing their establishment size …
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