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The abstract:

"This paper uses a randomized field experiment to identify which start-up characteristics are most important to investors in early stage firms. The experiment randomizes investors’ information sets of fund-raising start-ups. The average investor responds strongly to information about the founding team, but not to firm traction or existing lead investors. We provide suggestive evidence that team is not merely a signal of quality, and that investing based on team information is a rational strategy. Altogether, our results indicate that information about human assets is causally important for the funding of early stage firms, and hence, for entrepreneurial success."

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We must abstract further! Investors care mainly if you went to Stanford or worked previously at Amazon/Facebook/Google.