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Toward a Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship Model in Brazil

Ramalho, Caio - 2013

hypothesis that the venture capital industry has been supporting entrepreneurship in Brazil. Second, I identified an important … that venture capital-back entrepreneurship is highly concentrated in the Southeast region. And fourth, I identified that …

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Corporate Venture Capitalists and Independent Venture Capitalists : What Do They Know, Who Do They Know and Should Entrepreneurs Care?

Maula, Markku V. J.; Autio, Erkko; Murray, Gordon C. - 2015

There is an established body of research that has examined the value-added provided by venture capitalists for their portfolio companies. More recent work has started to look at the comparable activities of corporate venture capitalists. However, to date, the value-added provided by these two...

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Strategic Venturing in the Global Medical Device Industry : Corporate Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

Winston Smith, Sheryl - 2015

Corporate venture capitalists (CVC) invest in entrepreneurial startups for reasons including financial and strategic goals. In high-tech industries CVCs may use direct equity investment to stimulate innovation that is directly relevant to the investing firms' innovation efforts. At the same...

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Experienced Entrepreneurial Founders and Venture Capital Funding

Hsu, David H. - 2011

officers. The results suggest that entrepreneurs differ in accumulated human and social resources, which in turn have … measurable effects on VC timing and valuation. The results are accentuated for entrepreneurs with financially successful prior …

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Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship : A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels

Gornall, Will; Strebulaev, Ilya A. - 2020

We study gender and race in high-impact entrepreneurship using a tightly controlled randomized field experiment. We … email was sent by a fictitious entrepreneur with randomly assigned gender and race. Female entrepreneurs received 9% more … investors do not discriminate against female or Asian entrepreneurs when evaluating unsolicited pitch emails and that future …

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The Broader Impact of Venture Capital on Innovation : Reducing Entrepreneurial Capability Constraints Through Due Diligence

Gonzalez-Uribe, Juanita; Klingler-Vidra, Robyn; Wang, Su; … - 2023

We examine the value added by venture capital investors during the due-diligence process. We use data from a seed fund that quasi-randomly assigns applicants to due diligence, creating a natural experiment. We find that due-diligence assignment leads to higher average growth, even for companies...

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The Role of Migrant Entrepreneurship in New Tech Ventures : Empirical Evidence from European Fintechs

Turki, Aymen; Nahidi, Narmin - 2023

examine the effect of migrant entrepreneurship on Fintech funding and performance around venture capital (VC) investments in … Europe (EU). Based on a quantile analysis, we argue that migrant entrepreneurship seems to matter to VC investment size as … performance. Our findings are explained by the cognitive and human resources of migrant entrepreneurs that increases the …

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Product Market Competition, Venture Capital, and the Success of Entrepreneurial Firms

Cumming, Douglas J.; Nguyen, Giang; Nguyen, My - 2022

We document a positive effect of product market competition (PMC) on venture capital (VC) staging. Employing large tariff rate reductions as an exogenous shock to PMC, we find that large tariff reductions lead to a greater likelihood of staged financing and a larger number of financing rounds....

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Risky business : venture capital, pivoting and scaling

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024 - Revised April, 2024

The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups' decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...

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Review Essay : Public Policy and the Creation of Active Venture Capital Markets and Some Comments on 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and V...

Cumming, Douglas J. - 2013

In this review I could have focused on all of the excellent things in this work. But that would take too long, and the job of a reviewer is not to excessively praise but instead highlight areas of concern with the aim of full and correct dissemination of knowledge on a topic.I show conclusions...

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