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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev; Financial Services
  • 23 Sep 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev; Financial Services
  • Article

How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making
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  • November 2021
  • Article

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Investment Decisions; COVID-19 Pandemic; Impact; Health Pandemics; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey over 1,000 institutional and corporate venture capitalists (VCs) at more than 900 different firms to learn how their decisions and investments have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare their survey answers to those provided by a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Health Pandemics; Investment; Decision Making; Surveys
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  • 30 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50652 How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? By: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Working Paper

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • January 2020
  • Article

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Value Creation; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 2020 Journal of Financial Economics First Place Jensen Prize for “How Do Venture... View Details
  • Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

with Vikram Gandhi. Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 2021 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January... View Details