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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"early-stage ventures"”.
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Six degrees of early-stage ventures
… Valley, who are used to investing in later stages, move upstream to invest in fledgling firms to achieve higher ownership and returns (Clark, 2019a). Despite the high private market liquidity, standing out from the crowd is critical and has become more difficult to achieve, even for …
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Finding gold in glitter : a framework for assessing the prospects of early stage ventures
… spite of the innovation pace, very few of these ventures have gone on to become successes that have created wealth for all the stake holders involved. The failure rate of early stage ventures is still very high. A maxim of the VC industry from the late 90's and 2000's is, for every 10 venture …
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The language of early-stage entrepreneurship : strategic communication in venture evaluation contexts.
Early-stage ventures must persuade resource holders with limited information and brief interactions, making language a critical yet underexamined factor in entrepreneurial success. This dissertation examines how language complexity, adaptability, and alignment influence investor evaluations in …
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Public private equity : an evaluation of public early stage risk capital initiatives in Norway
… to finance limits the ability to grow for many early stage ventures. To mitigate this limitation, the Norwegian State has initiated seed funds partly financed by public funds. The funds carried out many investments during the late 1990s and 2000s. This thesis describes and evaluates the …
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Assessment of Founders in Venture Capital Investment Decisions
… what criteria contemporary investors in early-stage startups use to assess founders. One of the first questions posed by entrepreneurship researchers - even before entrepreneurship had formalized as a field - was, what criteria do investors consider when making investments in startups? …
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Research on technology entrepreneurship and accelerators
… what an accelerator is and what its impact is on early-stage technology ventures. To add to the confusion, many programs are continuously evolving their models. Understanding the organizational design of accelerators, its effectiveness, and its role in the startup ecosystem is key if we want to …
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Enhancing Corporate Strategy Using Data-Driven Business Growth Decisions
… (R&D) projects, and acquisitions of external early-stage ventures. Historically, these two growth decisions have primarily been made by small teams of subject matter experts, and have not been thoroughly explored using modern machine learning methodologies. The prediction problems in this …
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Business models: obstructer or driver of early-stage entrepreneurial businesses in the west-coast district municipality, south africa? a model for change.
… that limit their ability to build sustainable ventures. Early-stage businesses, in particular, struggle with resource scarcity, limited managerial capacity, and weak integration into broader market and institutional ecosystems. This study investigates how business models function as either …
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Exploring the catalytic influence of development finance institutions (DFIs) on South African venture capital (VC)
… rather than making direct investments into early-stage ventures. Moreover, DFIs would be advised to adapt their structures and processes to be more aligned with the operating realities of VC activities - specifically to be more nimble and less bureaucratic, allowing DFIs to meaningfully and …
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Exploring the catalytic influence of development finance institutions (DFIs) on South African venture capital (VC)
… rather than making direct investments into early-stage ventures. Moreover, DFIs would be advised to adapt their structures and processes to be more aligned with the operating realities of VC activities - specifically to be more nimble and less bureaucratic, allowing DFIs to meaningfully and …