VC fund financial performance: The relative importance of IPO and M&A exits and exercise of abandonment options

Financial Management

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1029-1065

  Smith, Richard ^a   Pedace, Robert ^b   Sathe, Vijay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 83155189124     PISSN: 00463892     EISSN: 1755053X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-053X.2011.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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