Entrepreneurial Passion and Venture Capitalists’ Willingness to Invest: The Role of Relational Capital [PDF]
Venture capital investment has serious conflicts of interest and information asymmetry. Venture capitalists often make investment decisions on the basis of the passion of entrepreneurs, including enthusiasm and preparedness, in the process of interacting
Hongtao Yang +5 more
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Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Venture Capitalists' Initial Trust [PDF]
The effectiveness of trust has been extensively investigated in entrepreneurship studies. However, compared to the outcomes of trust, we still lack knowledge about the mechanisms underlying venture capitalists' initial trust in entrepreneurs.
Hongtao Yang +5 more
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Are California venture capitalists the best venture capitalists?
We test if California VCs significantly outperform VCs from other US states. We additionally test in which instances California VCs outperform the other VC concentrated states of Massachusetts and New York. We find that VCs from California, Massachusetts,
Tyler Hull, Luna Y. Goldblatt
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INVESTMENT CRITERIA SET BY VENTURE CAPITALISTS
Different funders, like bankers, business angels or venture capitalists, put the accent on various investment criteria while making investment decisions.
Marija Šimić
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Analysis of Factors affecting the cooperation pattern of venture capitalists and Start-ups with a focus on non-financial value creation mechanisms in two domestic venture capitalists [PDF]
In interacting with Start-ups, venture capitalists play a role beyond providing financial resources for these companies and create value for them. The present research, using the case study method, investigates the factors affecting the cooperation ...
Milad Homayounizadeh +3 more
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That thing venture capitalist do [PDF]
Although many people know the term venture capital, not many people know precisely what role venture capitalists play in the economy. How do they identify entrepreneurs with promising new ideas? What kinds of services do they provide to these entrepreneurs?
Mitchell Berlin
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Can Female Venture Capitalists Improve the Investment Success Rate of Venture Capital Firms? Evidence from China [PDF]
Gender inequalities are widespread in the labor market, especially in the venture capital (VC) industry. Women are expected to balance work and family, and are left with limited energy to be competent in a high-intensity work environment, such as venture
Jia Ximeng, Shao Yan, Liu Yilin
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Herd Behavior in Venture Capital Market: Evidence from China
This paper aims to empirically analyze the herd behavior in the VC market in the context of China, including the existence, causes and consequences of herding among venture capitalists. For our empirical analysis, we first construct a herding measure and
Ruijun Zhang +3 more
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Considering that the assumption of time consistency does not adequately reveal the mechanisms of exit decisions of venture capital (VC), this study proposes two kinds of time-inconsistent preferences (i.e., time-flow inconsistency and time-point ...
Yanzhao Li +3 more
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Entrepreneurial learning about the venture capitalist community [PDF]
Entrepreneurs are exceptional learners (Smilor, 1997) but are also exceptional at creating value. Do venture capitalists and institutional investors accurately value the efforts of the entrepreneur?
Ron Berger
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