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- 2021
- Working Paper
Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub
By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria Roche
We study the participation of nascent firms in open-source communities and its implications for attracting VC funding. To do so, we exploit unique data on 160,065 US startups linking information from Crunchbase to firms' GitHub accounts. Estimating a within-startup...
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Keywords:
Startups;
Technology Strategy;
GitHub;
Machine Learning;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Technology;
Strategy
Conti, Annamaria, Christian Peukert, and Maria Roche. "Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-001, July 2021. (Revised September 2021.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship: A Virtuous Cycle
We consider the relationship between open source software (OSS) and entrepreneurship around the globe. This study measures how country-level participation on the GitHub OSS platform affects the founding of innovative ventures globally, and subsequently, how new venture...
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Keywords:
Open Source Software;
GitHub;
Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Development Economics
Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Frank Nagle, and Shane Greenstein. "Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship: A Virtuous Cycle." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-139, June 2020. (Revised August 2021.)