The Control Strategies for Information Asymmetry Problems Among Investing Institutions, Investors, and Entrepreneurs in Venture Capital

Attitudes of Venture Capital Investors Towards Entrepreneurs with Previous Business Failure

Business failure represents a significant outcome of entrepreneurial activity and yet remains an underdeveloped area of research. This article focuses on the attitudes of VC investors towards entrepreneurs with a previous failure experience. It illustrates that VCs recognise the complex, contextual nature of failure and do not necessarily perceive the entrepreneur to be the primary cause of the...

What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?

This study empirically evaluates the certification and value-added roles of reputable venture capitalists (VCs). Using a novel sample of entrepreneurial start-ups with multiple financing offers, I analyze financing offers made by competing VCs at the first professional round of start-up funding, holding characteristics of the start-up fixed. Offers made by VCs with a high reputation are three t...

Establishing Nontraditional Venture Capital Institutions: Lessons Learned

Early stage venture capital investing: comparing California and Scandinavia

While venture capital has become a global phenomenon, our knowledge about regional differences in venture capitalist (VC) behavior is quite poor. Most crossregional comparisons have been quantitative replications of US based studies, which has made it difficult to discern qualitative differences. To help remedy this situation, we conducted semi-structured interviews with altogether 12 early sta...

How Do Venture Capital Investors Add Value To Portfolio Companies?

Emerging growth companies are always eager for capital to finance growth. Capital in the monetary sense is in the forefront of every entrepreneur’s mind when it comes to seeking funding from venture capital and private equity investors. And for good reasons. Without the necessary capital, it is hard for an enterprise to build up its business. For any business to grow, it needs to hire the right...