Performance persistence in entrepreneurship

By Paul A. Gompers, A. Kovner, Josh Lerner, D. Scharfstein. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “Hence ΔLL cannot be calculated in column 3. would need to be correlated with lagged performance for any bias in γ to occur (Greene, 2003).”
Firm Age, Investment Opportunities, and Job Creation (2016, unknown): “Why do startups account for such a large fraction of the net response to local economic shocks? While a complete answer to this question is beyond the scope of any single paper, factors such as bureaucratic inflexibility, unobserved characteristics tied to the entrepreneur (Gompers et al. (2010)), a”
Founder Replacement and Startup Performance (2018, background): “Gorman and Sahlman (1986) list three non-financial areas where investors spend time, ostensibly in the interest of improving performance. First, VCs assist with strategic and operational planning. In support of the notion that investors influence strategic direction, Hsu (2006) finds that VC-backed ”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “For example, evidence suggests that prior entrepreneurial and industry experience can influence (not always positively) access to human, social and financial resources (Gompers et al., 2010; Hallen and Eisenhardt, 2012).”
Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups (2013, unknown): “We consider only serial founders of successful startups as Gompers et al. (2010) suggest that unsuccessful serial entrepreneurs have substantially lower chances than successful ones of succeeding in the next venture, and, moreover, the chances of the first category of entrepreneurs are similar to…”
The throne vs. the kingdom: Founder control and value creation in startups (2017, background): “…“Data and Methods,” one of my two core metrics of company value is the pre-money valuation of the company at the most recent round of financing (e.g., Gompers et al., 2010; Hsu, 2004), calculated as the price per share in the financing round times the number of shares outstanding prior to the…”