The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition: evidence from serial entrepreneurs |
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Authors: | Junfu Zhang |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA |
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Abstract: | Entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience are expected to have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs.
Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital.
This paper uses a large database of venture-backed companies and their founders to examine the advantage associated with prior
founding experience. Compared with novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding experience tend to raise
more venture capital at an early round of financing and tend to complete the early round much more quickly. In contrast, experienced
founders whose earlier firms were not venture-backed do not show a similar advantage over novice entrepreneurs, suggesting
the importance of connections with venture capitalists in the early stage of venture capital financing. However, when the
analysis also takes into account later rounds of financing, all entrepreneurs with prior founding experience appear to raise
more venture capital. This implies that skills acquired from any previous founding experience can make an entrepreneur perform
better and in turn attract more venture capital. |
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