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Founder personality and start-up subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
captured by the big five personality traits and entrepreneurial orientation, impacts entrepreneurs' seeking of start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305739
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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure
Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past …. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about skill. We predict that investors will discount entrepreneurs that … of failure into luck and skill. Our results indicate that investors discount entrepreneurs who have experienced failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732046
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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure
Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about skill. We predict that investors will discount entrepreneurs that … of failure into luck and skill. Our results indicate that investors discount entrepreneurs who have experienced failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011720322
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And the children shall lead : gender diversity and performance in venture capital
Gompers, Paul A.; Calder-Wang, Sophie - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901551
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Public policy for start-up entrepreneurship with venture capital and bank finance
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003
This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially … the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514147
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The dynamics of entrepreneurial careers in high-tech ventures : experience, education, and exit
Cumming, Douglas J.; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen - 2015
We investigate the career dynamics of high-tech entrepreneurs by analyzing the exit choice of entrepreneurs: to found … online database indicate that founders stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436054
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Entrepreneurial spawning : experience, education, and exit
Cumming, Douglas J.; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen - 2016
We investigate the career dynamics of high-tech entrepreneurs by analyzing the exit choice of entrepreneurs: to act as … that founders are more likely to stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor in cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539856
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Public equity markets and innovation
Bernstein, Shai - 2017
This paper reviews the literature on the role of public equity markets in the innovation ecosystem. The review highlights the importance of public equity markets in funding the research and development activities of young and high growth firms. It also illustrates the dependence of venture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723674
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How do venture vapitalists make decisions?
Gompers, Paul A.; Gornall, Will; Kaplan, Steven N.; … - 2016
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing; investment decisions; valuation; deal structure; post-investment value-added; exits; internal organization of firms; and relationships with limited partners. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864836
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Insider financing and venture capital returns
Ewens, Michael; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew; Strebulaev, Ilya A. - 2016
Staged financing of venture capital-backed firms is valuable to both investors and entrepreneurs, but comes with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864967