Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups

By Annamaria Conti, Marie C. Thursby, Frank T. Rothaermel. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Investment, Duration, and Exit Strategies for Corporate and Independent Venture Capital‐Backed Start‐Ups (2015, unknown): “A similar hypothesis can be found, for instance, in Bergemann and Hege (1998), Hong et al. (2013), and Conti et al. (2013). at risk.12 As a consequence, there will be asymmetric information about the value of the start-up at the time of its exit.”
Are Syndicates the Killer App of Equity Crowdfunding? (2015, background): “This includes support from friends and family, whose investments may provide a signal to others that the entrepreneur is trustworthy and serious about building their business.(16)”
The diminishing signaling value of patents between early rounds of venture capital financing (2014, background): “2 increase the amounts invested in firms that own them (Audretsch et al., 2012; Baum and Silverman, 2004; Cao and Hsu, 2011; Conti et al., 2013; Engel and Keilbach, 2007; Häussler et al., 2009; Hsu and Ziedonis, 2013; Mann and Sager, 2007).”
Patents as Signals for Startup Financing: Patents as Signals for Startup Financing (2013, background): “5 In assuming that patents are a signal for the quality of the invention, we follow Conti et al. [2013]. While the legal literature suggests that patents signal management quality (Long [2002]; Graham et al.”
Quality Signals? The Role of Patents, Alliances, and Team Experience in Venture Capital Financing (2015, unknown): “Examining a sample of mostly information technology start-ups from an incubator at Georgia Institute of Technology, Conti et al. (2013) find that the number of patents filed by a start-up is”
How patenting informs VC investors - The case of biotechnology (2014, background): “Furthermore, Conti et al. (2013a) suggest a model including the preferences of external investors and show that this effects the founders’ investment in patents as signals.”
What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions (2019, background): “Similarly, while prior investment by family and friends has been found to be a positive signal for business angels, it has been found to be a negative signal for venture capitalists (Conti et al., 2013).”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “…and combinations thereof increase the likelihood and amount of VC funding (Lerner 1994; Baum and Silverman 2004; Mann and Sager 2007; Audretsch, Bönte, and Mahagaonkar 2012; Conti, Thursby, and Rothaermel 2013; Hsu and Ziedonis 2013; Block et al. 2014; Haeussler, Harhoff, and Mueller 2014).”
Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions (2015, unknown): “Conti, Thursby, and Rothaermel (2011) argue that investments by F&F can signal the entrepreneur’s commitment to the venture.”