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I look at the perception of the age of startup founders. I find that founders in their early thirties are less likely to succeed and get funded and more likely to abadon. Females rated female founders aged 32,33 as consistently lower than 22,23 year old female founders in the probability of...
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We study whether corporate income taxation affects the long-term growth of newly incorporated companies through its effect on their choice of leverage at entry. We find that a decrease in corporate income taxation leads to a sizeable decrease in leverage at entry, and that the distribution of...
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In late 2017, DuraTable received a number of unsolicited inquiries regarding its interest in selling out in a going private transaction, mostly from private equity firms. Since the chairman of the board and founder, Gary Reynolds, was approaching retirement age and the largest single shareholder...
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People have various motivations for becoming an entrepreneur. A common assumption is that entrepreneurs in deprived or … start a social enterprise. A key step in gaining further insights into entrepreneurship in these areas is developing a …-to-face interviews with entrepreneurs in the two case study regions, the aim is to determine the impact of the regional context on start …
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focus on the perception of entrepreneurs. This paper presents the results of a conjoint analysis and assessment of the … importance of select characteristics among entrepreneurs and the qualities of a team of founders comprising managers of VC firms … eight characteristics of the entrepreneurs related to their decisions and assessed the functional composition of the team of …
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