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High Cost of Venture Capital and Investment Strategy Startups Should Follow
In this article, the mathematical expansion of the share that the venture capital investors should receive to meet their expectations is shown. After the initial phase has been overcome, the entrepreneurs’ acquaintances around them are insufficientin ...
Mustafa Şeref Akın
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When venture capital has been invested into venture companies, venture capitalists and venture entrepreneurs form a principal-agent relationship. Take into account the fact that the venture entrepreneur’s effort is a long process, because the effort is ...
Kaihong Wang +3 more
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Considering the risk aversion for gains and the risk seeking for losses of venture capitalists, the TODIM has been chosen as the decision-making method. Moreover, group decision is an available way to avoid the limited ability and knowledge etc.
Weike Zhang, Jiang Du, Xiaoli Tian
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The Optimal Multistage Effort and Contract of VC’s Joint Investment
If the venture project has a great demand of investment, venture entrepreneurs will seek multiple venture capitalists to ensure necessary funding. This paper discusses the decision-making process in the case that multiple venture capitalists invest in a ...
Meng Wu
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Cultural proximity, venture capital and firm performance
Cultural distance is an important factor for the success of venture capital (VC) investments. Using a large sample of Chinese VC events, this study examines how cultural proximity between VC investors and portfolio firms, as measured by a unique ...
Guoyan Huang +3 more
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Exit Decision of Venture Capital Based on Linear Contract in Continuous Time: IPO or M&A
Based on the assumption that the long-term value of a venture capital satisfies the algebraic Brownian motion, we develop a continuous-time exit model of venture capital under different exit modes, namely, initial public offering (IPO) and mergers and ...
Ding Chuan, Dahai Li, Meishu Ye
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How do venture capitalists make decisions? [PDF]
Abstract We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions. Using the framework in Kaplan and Stromberg (2001), we provide detailed information on VCs’ practices in pre-investment screening (sourcing evaluating and selecting investments), in structuring investments, and in post-investment monitoring ...
Paul A. Gompers +3 more
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Who Are the True Venture Capitalists in Germany? [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze the investment and divestment patterns of different types of venture capitalists. Using a data set embracing all venture-backed IPOs that occured on Germany's Neuer Markt we investigate whether the governance structures ...
Tykvová, Tereza
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Comparative Advantages of Public Loan and Public Equity Schemes in Venture Capital Markets [PDF]
Using an agency framework, this paper examines advantages of offering venture capitalists a choice between public equity and loan schemes. Both schemes can be used to promote venture capital investments in hightechnology enterprises since they encourage ...
Schertler, Andrea
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When venture capitalists are attracted by the experienced
This article tries to find when the experience plays a key role in investment decisions by venture capitalists (VCs) investment decisions. First, we analyze the relative importance of the decision-making criteria that VCs have in mind.
Dohyeon Kim, Su Yong Lee
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