{"id":494,"date":"2017-08-17T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2024-05-21T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:15:32","slug":"early-indicators-of-fundraising-success-by-venture-capital-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Early Indicators of Fundraising Success by Venture Capital Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>with Timothy E. Trombley<\/p>\n<p>This working paper is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3020256\">SSRN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract: <\/b>We show how a venture capital firm\u2019s fundraising is affected by its investment choices. We investigate three leading indicators that are calculated from the type of investments the venture capital firms make: style drift investments, follow-on investments, and investments in which the venture capital firm is not the lead investor in the portfolio company. We find that these investments are associated with lower fundraising. Investment type and fundraising reaction to investment type are both moderately stable through time. We also find evidence that information about investment types is more important for fundraising during bad states of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with Timothy E. Trombley This working paper is available at SSRN. Abstract: We show how a venture capital firm\u2019s fundraising is affected by its investment choices. We investigate three leading indicators that are calculated from the type of investments the venture capital firms make: style drift investments, follow-on investments, and investments in which the venture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/?p=494\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henrylahr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}