Journal
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Volume 128, Issue 3, Pages 422-442Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.03.001
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Innovation; Venture capital; Entrepreneurship; Investing; Abandonment options
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- Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship
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We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of venture capitalists (VCs) in recent years - an increased prevalence of a spray and pray investment approach - where investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly inform beliefs about the future potential of the venture. This adaptation and related entry by new financial intermediaries has led to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply, and reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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