Form or Substance: The Role of Business Plans in Venture Capital Decision Making

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Southern Medical Journal

• Publication date

  2009-12-11

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.2139/SSRN.1533384
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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