A Pheasant Venture

Parnham—A Pioneer Venture

Building a Venture Capital Index

This paper builds a venture capital index from 1987 to 1999 that consists of 12,946 rounds of venture financing with 5,643 venture-backed firms. The paper uses two innovative techniques, a re-weighting procedure and a method of moment repeat sales regression, to mitigates three problems missing data, censored data, and sample selection. We report the time series of capital flows, net asset valu...

Partial Altitudinal Migration of a Himalayan Forest Pheasant

BACKGROUND Altitudinal migration systems are poorly understood. Recent advances in animal telemetry which enables tracking of migrants across their annual cycles will help illustrate unknown migration patterns and test existing hypotheses. Using telemetry, we show the existence of a complex partial altitudinal migration system in the Himalayas and discuss our findings to help better understand ...

Characteristics of common pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus ) meat

1 Dept. of Meat Science, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland 2 Center of Bioimmobilization and Innovative Packaging Materials, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland 3 Division of Sciences of Commoditives and Food Quality, Faculty of Food Science and Fisheries, West Pomerania...

Learning and venture capital: The growth of venture knowledge

This paper sets out to analyze the modes of ‘venture learning’, which is defined as the process whereby knowledge is acquired on how to identify, develop and exploit business opportunities and the associated ventures. The context of learning discussed here is that of high technology ventures, and the ways in which certain types of venture relevant knowledge is acquired and transferred by ventur...