2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.11.008
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Venture capital reputation and investment performance☆

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“…Testing these hypotheses with our data set which covers a large part of all US IPOs in the time period between 1975 and 2010 reveals that we do not find support neither for the timing nor for the grandstanding hypothesis. Our analysis, however, indicates that measures for VC experience and reputation (derived partially from a recent study of Nahata (2008) on the link between VC reputation and performance in the pre-IPO period) of the VC which brought the firm initial to the exchange have a positive and significant impact on the going-private probability. This finding clearly supports our certification hypothesis implying that indeed more experienced and reputable VCs are able and willing to bring marginal firms to the market.…”
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confidence: 67%
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“…Testing these hypotheses with our data set which covers a large part of all US IPOs in the time period between 1975 and 2010 reveals that we do not find support neither for the timing nor for the grandstanding hypothesis. Our analysis, however, indicates that measures for VC experience and reputation (derived partially from a recent study of Nahata (2008) on the link between VC reputation and performance in the pre-IPO period) of the VC which brought the firm initial to the exchange have a positive and significant impact on the going-private probability. This finding clearly supports our certification hypothesis implying that indeed more experienced and reputable VCs are able and willing to bring marginal firms to the market.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 67%
“…It is interesting to view our results against the background of the findings of Nahata (2008). Nahata (2008) shows that experienced and reputable VCs (as measured by the MARKET-SHARE-MCAP-VC variable) are more likely to exit their ventures successful venture.…”
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confidence: 91%
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