The impact of digital start-up founders’ higher education on reaching equity investment milestones

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The impact of digital start-up founders’ higher education on reaching equity investment milestones

This paper builds on human capital theory to assess the importance of formal education among graduate entrepreneurs. Using a sample of 4.953 digital start-ups the paper evaluates the impact of start-up founding teams’ higher education on the probability of securing equity investment and subsequent e...

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Main Authors:	Ratzinger, Daniel, Amess, Kevin, Greenman, Andrew, Mosey, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2018
Subjects:	University qualifications Human capital Equity investments Digital economy
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43470/

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