UW News
Benjamin Hallen
October 14, 2015
Venture capital investors with competing interests can inhibit innovation
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For entrepreneurs, connections are as good as gold. Especially connections with the right investors. But connections with the wrong investors can inhibit a firm’s ability to innovate, according to new research from the Foster School of Business.