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"LIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry var djConfig = { parseOnLoad: true, isDebug: false };NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH HOME PAGE Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industryUse a mirror (584 K)Ashish Arora, Anand Nandkumar NBER Working Paper No. 15532*Issued in November 2009NBER Program(s): PRWe analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. We depart from the literature on entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition), especially in innovation based industries. Striving for a cash-out makes mistakes more likely and increases the probability of failure. High opportunity cost entrepreneurs will attempt to cash-out (IPO or friendly acquisition) quickly, even if it implies a higher risk of failure. Entrepreneurs with fewer outside alternatives may tend to linger on longer. We formalize this intuition with a simple model. Using a novel dataset of information security startups we find that entrepreneurs with high opportunity costs are not only more likely to cash-out but they are also more likely to fail. As well, our results confirm the predicted role of venture quality in conditioning the relationship between entrepreneurial opportunity cost and entrepreneurial performance"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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Cash-out or flame-out! opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: theory, and evidence from the information security industry
2009, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Includes bibliographical references.
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