One in three deals in the early-stage financing market involves an investor and founder from the same alma mater. We show that founders' connections to early-stage investors through shared education networks are more important than school academic quality or shared geography in facilitating...

The rapid social, economic, and politicalchanges in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia(e.g. Vietnam, China) have earned these nationsthe title of"transition economies." The evolution of entrepreneurial endeavorswithin these nations, both pre and post institutional...

We study how venture capital firms (VCs), one major capital provider for early-stage entrepreneurial companies, respond to narcissistic entrepreneurs. VCs prefer to invest in companies with narcissistic entrepreneurs. Conditional on making an investment, VCs are more likely to impose contingent...