Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
研究发现哈佛商学院新创企业竞赛中随机接触更多风险投资家的男性参与者更可能创办风投支持的初创企业，但女性参与者未受益，这与她们较少主动联系接触过的风投有关，揭示了网络摩擦的性别差异。
Abstract We find that male participants in Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition who were randomly exposed to more venture capital (VC) investors on their panel were substantially more likely to start a VC-backed startup post-graduation, indicating that access to investors impacts fundraising independent of the quality of ideas. However, female participants experience no benefit from exposure to male or female venture capitalists (VCs), which appears related to a reduced propensity to reach out to VCs to whom they were exposed. Our results therefore also demonstrate gender-based differences in the degree to which increased exposure to investors can address networking frictions in venture capital.