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ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. Bootstrapping 101. Hans Hvide at the University of Aberdeen Business School just published a paper, "The Horse or the Jockey? Evidence from Nascent Firms where a Founder Dies" in an attempt to quantitatively answer this question. Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine.