Authors:

  • Josh Lerner

Excerpt

Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges. Josh Lerner, 2017, Book Chapter, "Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, many more fail. This enormous heterogeneity poses conceptual and measurement challenges for economists concerned with understanding their precise impact on economic growth." Link