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Does a VC’s Commitment Lead to Improved Investment Outcomes? Evidence From Climate Startups

Burt, Aaron; Harford, Jarrad V. T.; Stanfield, Jared R.; … - 2022

We assess whether a VC’s intrinsic commitment to a startup affects investment performance. We proxy for climate change commitment using the political contributions to democrats of the lead VC person on a deal. We find investments by democrats in climate-related startups have 8% higher...

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Founder Replacement and Startup Performance

Ewens, Michael - 2018

We provide causal evidence that venture capitalists (VCs) improve the performance of their portfolio companies by replacing founders. Augmenting a database of U.S.-based, VC-backed startups founded from 1995-2008 with hand-collected information regarding turnover, we exploit shocks to the supply...

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Board Dynamics Over the Startup Life Cycle

Ewens, Michael - 2020

Venture capital (VC) backed firms face neither the governance requirements nor a major separation of ownership and control of their public peers. These differences suggest that independent directors could play a unique role on private firm boards. This paper explores the dynamics of VC-backed...

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Outside Directors at Early-Stage Startups

Venugopal, Buvaneshwaran; Yerramilli, Vijay - 2020

We document substantial variation across startups in whether and when they appoint outside directors, and the type of directors they appoint. The startup-director match depends on professional connections and individual experience profiles. Early-stage investors are more likely to serve as...

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Venture Capital Performance in China

Wang, Qing (Sophie) - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of venture capital (VC) performance in China. We focus on the impact of VC … reputation, political connections, and managing partner/founder's experience on the performance of domestic and foreign VC … factors, we find little correlation between VC reputation and investment performance in the Chinese market. In contrast, we …

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Venture Capital Investment and the Post-IPO Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms : Evidence from the People's Republic of China

Guo, Di - 2016

in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after an initial public offering (IPO). Firm-level panel data analysis shows that …

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Do Venture Capitalists Play a Monitoring Role in an Emerging Market : Evidence from the Pay-Performance Relationship of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms?

Cao, Jerry - 2014

This paper investigates venture capitalists' monitoring of managerial behaviour by examining their impact on CEO pay-performance sensitivity across various controlling structures in Chinese firms. We find that the effectiveness of venture capitalists' monitoring depends on different types of...

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Venture capital and growth of young high-tech firms in the EU : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Pantea, Smaranda; Tkacik, Marcel - 2021

This study contributes to the debate on VC-related policies that aim to support the growth of young high-tech firms in the EU. The study provides a systematic review of the results of 22 firm-level studies that estimate causal effects of VC using counterfactual impact evaluation methods and data...

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Employee compensation in entrepreneurial companies

Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. - 2012 - This draft: July, 2012

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809 privately-held venture-backed...

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And the children shall lead : gender diversity and performance in venture capital

Gompers, Paul A.; Calder-Wang, Sophie - 2017

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...

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