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The founder (team)ś human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founderś choice of the initial...
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm's business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...
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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 partnership VCs more favorably than other VC types...
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This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO’s (Chile’s main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This paper analyzes the likely impact of the program-which is a subsidy provided to new, innovative firms on...
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In this present paper, we investigate gender-related differences in the survival of ventures financed through equity crowdfunding. Based on a study of 220 enterprises that pursued equity crowdfunding in Germany between January 2011 and November 2017, we find that the presence of females in the...
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This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect' of founders' human capital on entrepreneurial ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential injections and losses...
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the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. In particular, the subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is …
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explained by business dynamics, innovation, human capital and the level of entrepreneurship in each region. Findings The results … obtained lead the authors to conclude that entrepreneurship understood as both the creation of new firms and entrepreneurial … activity as alternative measures of entrepreneurship. In this research, however, both variables are considered together …
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