Kwapisz, AgnieszkaHechavarrí­a, Diana M.2018-10-222018-10-222018-06Kwapisz, Agnieszka, and Diana M. Hechavarrí­a. "Women don't ask: an investigation of start-up financing and gender." Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 20, no. 2 (June 2018): 159-190. DOI:10.1080/13691066.2017.1345119.1369-1066https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/14941Are women less likely to ask for help financing their businesses? This study investigates whether gender is a factor that impacts the propensity to ask for financing among nascent entrepreneurs. We also investigate if start-up helpers, who do not have an ownership share, have an impact on the likelihood of asking for financing, specifically between men and women. Our findings suggest that being female significantly decreases the probability of asking for financing and the presence of start-up helpers significantly increases the incidence of asking for financing in the nascent stage. In addition, among those who created new firms or were still in the start-up process, the number of start-up helpers exponentially increased the incidence of asking for financing among female founders. We use the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics II data, the largest, nationally representative, and longitudinal database on nascent entrepreneurs for the United States.enThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Article