Skill Versus Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

December 4th, 2006 • 3 comments Entrepreneurship + Startups, Venture Capital
Tags: entrepreneurship, fundraising, startups, Venture Capital

I stumbled upon a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research titled “Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs”. The title held promise for the paper and so I took a read. The paper is pretty long (42 pages total - 26 pages of text with the rest being tables and other miscellaneous stuff). If you are a current, past, or future entrepreneur, I’d highly recommend taking a read of this paper. Here are the parts that I found interesting.

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