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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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Entrepreneur Heterogeneity and New Venture Financing

Berkovitch, Elazar - 2015

We explain the coexistence of different financiers like Venture Capital (VC) and Angel investors and study the role of policymakers in promoting innovation. VC investors are better informed. However, Angel investors offer entrepreneurs a better avenue to capture entrepreneurs' motivational...

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Entrepreneurial Spawning : Experience, Education, and the Role of Venture Capital

Cumming, Douglas J. - 2015

We present theory and evidence on the careers of high-tech entrepreneurial founders prior to obtaining venture capital (VC), and after VC exit. Prior to obtaining VC, entrepreneurs may have started other ventures, worked as a salaried employee in a startup, or worked for a large company. Upon VC...

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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Zhang, Junfu - 2007

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …

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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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The Role of the Entrepreneur's Human Capital in Korean Venture Industry

Choi, Youngkeun - 2017

This study aims to examines the effects of an entrepreneur's human capital characteristics in early-stage firms in Korean venture industry. The data come from 260 firms which was gone public during 2000s in the Korean information technology (IT) industry. We consider age, schooling, and...

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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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Unternehmensgründungen : mehr innovative Startups durch einen Kulturwandel für Entrepreneurship?

Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - 2016

Kenntnissen sowie Entrepreneurship beleuchtet, bevor im Fazit Empfehlungen zum Ausbau von Gründerkultur und Risikobereitschaft … the education system in transferring business knowledge and entrepreneurship. This is followed by a conclusion in which …

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