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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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Characteristics of Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Growth Paths

Cohen, Laurence - 2018

The aim of this paper is to better understand how entrepreneurial equity finance interacts with the complex growth process of young technological ventures. More specially, we investigate how different growth paths are influenced by the entrepreneurs' interactions with different categories of...

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Measuring Venture Emergence in Entrepreneurship Research

Giones, Ferran; Fox, Paul; Miralles, Francesc - 2021

This paper explores how venture emergence has been defined and measured in entrepreneurship research. It identifies the … venture emergence in entrepreneurship research share a common theoretical grounding that reduces the diversity of instruments … well as research gaps are offered as a guide for entrepreneurship researchers …

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Entrepreneurial Hiring Strategies in Standalone and Portfolio Ventures

Hietaniemi, Liinus; Santamaria, Simone; Kacperczyk, … - 2021

, making the optimal hiring strategy unclear. We argue that such strategy depends on the type of entrepreneurship pursued …: whether entrepreneurship entails founding a standalone venture or a portfolio of ventures. We predict that standalone ventures …

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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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Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Financing Choice

Dudley, Evan - 2020

This paper investigates the influence of social capital on young firms' financing arrangements. Using a sample of U.S. start-ups, I find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and social networks in the entrepreneur's county, increases access to outside financing and reduces reliance...

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Entrepreneurship policy and firm performance Chile's CORFO Seed Capital Program

Navarro, Lucas - In: Estudios de economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 301-316

This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO’s (Chile’s main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This paper analyzes the likely impact of the program-which is a subsidy provided to new, innovative firms on...

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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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Exploring the Venture Creation Process : Evidences from Tech and Non-Tech Nascent Entrepreneurs

Liao, Jianwen (Jon); Welsch, Harold - 2011

The process of creating new organizations has increasingly become the focus of entrepreneurship research (Gartner, 1990 …

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