Alexy, Oliver; Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp; Wal, Anne Ter - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 835-851
How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? By building on the rich … social capital literature, we hypothesize a positive effect of VCs’ social capital, derived from past syndication, on the … implications of our findings for theories of venture capital and entrepreneurship, showing that the role and effect of VCs’ social …