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Why Do Entrepreneurs Refuse Venture Capital?

Croce, Annalisa - 2018

Despite the evidence on the positive effect of venture capital (VC) on portfolio firm performance, such evidence badly pulls up alongside the non-negligible number of entrepreneurial firms that chooses to refuse VC. This is the first study that investigates the determinants behind the missed...

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When is Conflict (Not) Good for Business : The Case of Business Angels and Entrepreneurial Teams

Collewaert, Veroniek - 2009

In order to account for the mixed findings regarding conflict and its effects, conflict researchers have proposed a contingency perspective. In this study, I show that task conflicts between business angels and entrepreneurial teams have a detrimental impact on the portfolio company's...

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Ventures in Rebuilding : The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Post-Disaster Context

Sautet, Frederic - 2008

is to unleash the forces of entrepreneurship. Because entrepreneurs have better incentives than government officials do …

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Econometric Models of Duration Data in Entrepreneurship with an Application to Start-Ups’ Time-To-Funding by Venture Capitalists (VCs)

Momtaz, Paul P. - 2020

entrepreneurship. Widespread econometric misconception, however, may cause complicated biases in existing studies. The reason is … endogeneity problem and methods to debias time-to-event models in entrepreneurship. Simulations and empirical evidence indicate … variables in entrepreneurship …

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The Importance of Industry to Entrepreneurship : Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey

Boudreaux, Christopher - 2019

Industries serve an important function in strategic entrepreneurship. By placing the industrial structure at the focal … their importance in strategic entrepreneurship, studies often treat industries as something to be controlled rather than … explicitly examined, and although some studies have considered the industry's important role in the entrepreneurship literature …

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Is Green the New Gold? Venture Capital and Green Entrepreneurship

Mrkajic, Boris - 2017

We test whether born-to-be-green represents a signal toward potential venture capital (VC) investors on a sample of Italian, independent, unlisted, high-tech entrepreneurial firms. We employ several identification strategies by controlling for the major potential signals, and the alleged...

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The Effects of Corporate Venture Capital, Founder Incumbency, and Their Interaction on Entrepreneurial Firms’ R&D Investment Strategy

Paik, Yongwook - 2017

Corporate venture capital (CVC) investment has increasingly become an important source of entrepreneurial finance. Accordingly, while scholars have traditionally focused on understanding the main motivations behind CVC activity and its impact on the investing corporate firm, more recently,...

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Exposed : Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation

Cox Pahnke, Emily - 2015

This study investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational relationships. In...

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Entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making : a focus on venture capitalists, business angels and early-stage entrepreneurs in South Africa

Urban, Boris; Moreno, Marco Antonio - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 24 (2022) 2, pp. 38-58

Business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs) are important sources of finance for entrepreneurs in emerging markets for raising start-up and growth capital. Recognising that entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making is a highly complex process, and that there are limited...

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Know Your Worth : Angel Financing of Female Entrepreneurial Ventures

Poczter, Sharon - 2016

This study explores success rates in angel financing based on the gender composition of entrepreneurial teams using unique, hand-collected data from the television program Shark Tank. We find that the likelihood of a team receiving an offer from an angel investor is independent of the...

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