Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Baseline Methodology Report

Ballou, Janice; Barton, Tom; DesRoches, David; Potter, Frank; Zhao, Zhanyun; Santos, Betsy; Sebastian, Jaceey

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“…These businesses were surveyed annually until 2011 resulting in 8 years of panel data. Ballou et al (2007) report that the target population was all new businesses started as an independent business in the 2004 calendar year. The KFS target population does not include new businesses that were started as a branch or subsidiary owned by an existing business, an inherited business, or a business created as a not-for-profit organization.…”

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The debt-equity financing decisions of U.S. startup firms

2014

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We examine the debt-equity decisions of startup firms using the Kauffman Firm Survey, the largest database of U.S. startups launched in 2004. To control for sample selection bias and the correlation among financing decisions, we employ a Bivariate Probit-Tobit model. Our results show that several firm characteristics such as growth prospects, firm size, tangible assets, and selling products, as well as owner characteristics such as net worth, experience, education and ethnicity explain the debtequity decisions in the startup year. In addition, for firms that use debt, we document traits that explain the use of a particular type of business versus personal debt. Larger firms use more business debt, whereas home-based and growth firms use more personal sources of debt. Immigrants, owners who lack work experience and those who invest more time in the business tend to rely more on personal sources of debt.

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The debt-equity financing decisions of U.S. startup firms

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“…Two large national surveys that draw on broader populations of high-tech firms report results that are substantially lower, around 15%. One is the Kauffman Firm Survey (Ballou et al, 2007), which sampled high-tech companies founded in 2004. Many of these firms had zero or one employee, so they may not be contributing very much to economic growth.…”

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States

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Economic Development Quarterly

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This article reports the results of a national survey that estimates the rate of immigrant entrepreneurship in a representative sample of high-impact firms in high-technology industries in the United States. The authors report key descriptive statistics about the companies and their founders. About 16% of the companies in the sample, for instance, number at least one immigrant entrepreneur among their founding teams, while about 77% of the immigrant entrepreneurs are U.S. citizens. Three multivariate analyses are carried out that compare high-impact, high-tech firms that count at least one immigrant in their founding teams with those that were founded by native-born entrepreneurs. It is found that the two groups of firms are similar with respect to economic and technological performance. Immigrant-founded firms are more likely to report that they have a strategic relationship with a foreign firm. The authors conclude by briefly considering the potential implications of their findings for immigration and economic development policy.

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“…Dun and Bradstreet is the world's largest provider of business information.61 For detailed information on the survey design and the sampling process seeRobb et al (2009) andBallou et al (2008).…”

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Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Baseline Methodology Report

Cited by 9 publications

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The debt-equity financing decisions of U.S. startup firms

The debt-equity financing decisions of U.S. startup firms

High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States

Empirical studies on R&D, innovation and the business cycle

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