Venture capital growing pains: Should the market diet?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 6-8, 1998, Pages 1089-1104

  Gompers, Paul A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset returns; Fundraising; G2; G3; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039244031     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(98)00041-7     Document Type: Article

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