Similar Search Results

Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure

Zunino, Diego - 2017

Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947124

Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors’ Judgment of Entrepreneurs’ Past Failure

Zunino, Diego - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947217

Institutions and entrepreneurship quality

Chowdhury, Farzana; Audretsch, David B.; Belitski, Maksim - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 43 (2019) 1, pp. 51-81

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022709

Financing and advising early stage startups : the effect of angel investor subsidies

Berger, Marius; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2021

In recent years governments around the world have introduced policies to stimulate investments in early stage entrepreneurial companies, in particular investments by Angel investors. In this paper we study whether introducing subsidies to Angel investors has effects on startups’ access to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622932

Public subsidies and the sources of venture capital

Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2020

Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular, Venture Capital (VC). This study differentiates between Government VC, Independent VC, Corporate VC, and Business Angels and shows that public subsidies are not relevant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389514

Founder personality and start-up subsidies

Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023

Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305739

Conflicting fiduciary duties and fire sales of VC-backed start-ups

Bian, Bo; Li, Yingxiang; Nigro, Casimiro A. - 2022

This paper studies the interactions between corporate law and VC exits by acquisitions, an increasingly common source of VC-related litigation. We find that transactions by VC funds under liquidity pressure are characterized by (i) a substantially lower sale price; (ii) a greater probability of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279443

Changes in and Insights on Potential Industry and Enterprise Insolvency in the Manufacturing Sector

Oh, Young-Seok; Park, Sung Keun - 2023

This paper takes the spectrum approach to identify possible industrial and enterprise insolvency and goes on to conduct … a composite analysis of both the potential industry insolvency spectrum and enterprise insolvency spectrum. Recently …, the proportion of industries and enterprises showing signs of insolvency in Korea’s manufacturing sector has been on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263110

Start-up subsidies and the sources of venture capital

Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2021

Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular on Venture Capital (VC), through providing certification and early-stage liquidity. Building on the attention-based view, we argue that the various sources of VC value...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013338040

Success or Failure of French New Technology-Based and Venture-Backed Firms : An Empirical Approach

Dubocage, Emmanuelle - 2013

This paper analyses the factors that drive the dynamics of French new technology-based and venture-backed companies, using a hand-collected database with 216 companies created between 1998 and 2005. The Venture Capital (VC) firms can choose between three outcomes: the company exits from their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090154