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a16z Brings Thought Leadership to the Valley

As part of an early wave of VCs and investors who began to blog about entrepreneurship and venture capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Robert Buday , Charles Eesley and James C Wetherbe

Is Structure Good or Bad for Startups?

We explored this question in a study recently published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Andrea Contigiani

Technical Specialized Knowledge and Founder Leadership at Initial Public Offering

For example, Junkunc & Eckhardt (2009) note that while mathematical models in the social sciences Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Jon Eckhardt , Marc Junkunc and Mingxiang Li

Research Insight: Proven Entrepreneurs May Benefit Less from Partnering With Experienced VCs

The Takeaway Gomper et al’s paper provides evidence that outcomes in entrepreneurship are driven by more Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Investing in Capabilities and Reputation Pays Off for VC Firms

New venture capital firms must make a variety of strategic decisions about market positioning and relationships with the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. One choice VC firms must make is whether to Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Hsu

Media Attention Helps Private Equity Firms Attract Resources

New firms can attract resources by sending out signals about their quality. They do this because a new firm’s quality is often uncertain and hard to observe. But we don’t know much about what Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Tom Vanacker

Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations

New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. A recent study that I conducted with Tom Vanacker of Ghent University explored how a new firm's affiliations with venture capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes