Optimal Investment, Monitoring, and the Staging of Venture Capital

Venture Capital

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 285-313

  Gompers, Paul A ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 85013806953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315235110-17     Document Type: Chapter

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