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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Venture capitalists"”.
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The Role of Venture Capitalists in Monitoring Portfolio Companies
Does the role played by venture capitalists add value to their portfolio companies? How do they add value? What are the characteristics of those venture capitalists? Does financial leverage matter for VC-backed companies? All of these questions are researched in this dissertation. The manuscript …
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Startup Valuation by Venture Capitalists: A Strategic Management Approach
… in strategic management and under-researched venture capital valuation practice. It brings more theoretical rigor to the venture capital investment literature by introducing a systematic approach to identify and measure factors important to new venture valuation. It explores a possibility to …
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Value added by venture capitalists : the case of EDC (Export Development Canada)
It is generally well understood that venture capital (VC) is an important and significant source of financing for small firms. Questions revolving around the increased likelihood of a firm backed by Venture Capitalists (VCs) to be export oriented have yet to be fully explored. Responding to this …
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The role of venture capitalists in financing and developing high-technology start-ups
… dissertation addresses the interaction between venture capitalists (VCs) and start-up development through three essays. A common theme is that VCs serve important extra-financial and information brokering roles. In the first essay, using the setting of entrepreneurs obtaining financing from VCs, …
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Decision-Making in Early-Stage Startups: How Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Evaluate Uncertainty
… purpose of this dissertation is to examine how venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors (AIs) make investment decisions regarding early-stage startups. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) framework—consisting of three core components: phenomenology, hermeneutics, and …
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Real lessons for venture capitalists in multimodal logistics systems : where does profitability come from?
… will help managers, investors and primarily the venture capital industry understand the main reasons of failure or success behind a business story and reveal some hidden factors, which may crucially determine the outcome of the business. We will perform our analysis qualitatively, identifying …
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Corporate governance, professionalisation and performance of IPO firms. The role of founders and venture capitalists.
… signalling theory, this thesis examines the role venture capitalists (VCs) and founders play with respect to both structural board characteristics and board capital in terms of experience and prestige and whether these are linked to performance. It claims that VCs and founders shape the governance …
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The paradox of prosperity in China: the interplay among entrepreneurs, government, and venture capitalists at initial public offering
… a key entrepreneurial event in a life of a new venture, the initial public offering. Each essay investigates the mechanisms through which three key players, namely founders, government, and venture capitalists, influence governance structure and value creation in an emerging market. I have …
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The finance of biotechnology:investment in new biotechnology firms by British venture capitalists-attitudes to, and evaluation of, business proposals
… formation has been the ready availability of venture capital funding. These firms have been instrumental in establishing America's lead in exploiting biotechnology. It is this example which Britain has attempted to emulate as part of its strategy for developing its own biotechnology …
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The use of effectuation in venture capitalist early-stage investment decision making in China.
This study investigates how venture capitalists in China make early-stage investment decisions under uncertainty. Within this context, it examines why early-stage venture capitalists use effectuation (involving emergent strategy) in contrast to prediction (concerned with planned strategy) and how …
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Venture capital and innovation in information technology : evaluation of the French public policy
Today, there are hundreds of new ventures in Silicon valley, and on the route 128 in Massachusetts that were created by French people. However, in France, innovation in high-technology has stabilized and did not significantly take off. Aware of this issue, the French government has been undertaking …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… focuses on the financing of entrepreneurship by venture capitalists. Specifically, I study how deal-sourcing and venture capitalists' evaluation ability affect ventures' valuation and capital supply in the venture capital market when there is asymmetric information between investors and …
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Tracking innovation : an examination of university research and its relationship to early stage venture capital
… university technology transfer and early stage venture capital, one must review the historical impact of the Bayh·Dole Act, the amendment of the "Prudent Man" rule by the Department of Labor, the historical association between academia and venture capital, as well as the rise and influence of …
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Venture Capital as a Network for Human Resources Allocation
Moreover, some venture capitalists develop the reputation of assisting managers with job placement. The fact that this reputation is important to explain their decisions to network constitutes evidence that venture capital can attract managers by reducing the firm-specific managerial risk.
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Six degrees of early-stage ventures
… entrepreneurs (Planko et al., 2017). Curiously, venture capitalists who expect the latest technology and innovation from new ventures, did not themselves significantly innovate in their approach, including methods of evaluating ventures (Kupor, 2019). Few investors came up with new, …
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Intangibles in a venture capital setting
… often find it difficult to obtain funding. Venture capital firms attempt to fill this funding gap by providing finance in exchange for equity. This research considers intangibles from the point of view of the venture capitalist. Specific emphasis is made on patenting, as a formal way of …
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On creating cleantech confluences : best practices and partnerships to mobilize multiple sources of private capital into early-stage clean technologies
… is partly due to the large losses sustained by venture capitalists-one of the greatest source of early-stage capital-who invested heavily in clean technology companies in the years leading up to the 2008 recession. After the market crashed, federal and state governments ended up being among the …
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Essays in corporate finance
… in which investors decide whether to become venture capitalists or to form firms and entrepreneurs decide whether to join a firm or seek financing in the venture capital market. The venture capital market allows better matching between investors and entrepreneurs, but this comes at the cost …
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Incubators in the new economy
… required to create today's successful new ventures: speed-to-market, synergy and network, talent cultivation, and strategic cohesiveness. This study looks at this phenomenon and explores the incubator's operating models and organizational forms, focusing specifically on the …
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Risk, Reputation, and Interdependence in the Market for Initial Public Offerings: Embedded Networks and the Construction of Organization Value
… relationships with institutional investors and venture capitalists to influence transaction outcomes among buying and selling organizations in the market for initial public offerings. I develop a dual-process model of market mediation to explain how investment banks, acting as transaction …
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