Specialization and Diversification of Venture Capital Funds: The Effect of VC Effort
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Acknowledgement: We appreciate comments and suggestions from the reviewers and from participants of the SEJ Special Issue conference at Temple University in April 2010. Zoltan Acs provided highly useful suggestions. We appreciate careful editing by Tamzin Mitchell.
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