TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kaplan, Steven N
AU  - Lerner, Josh
TI  - Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 22500
PY  - 2016
Y2  - August 2016
DO  - 10.3386/w22500
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22500
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22500.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven N. Kaplan
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-4513
Fax: 773/702-0458
E-Mail: steven.kaplan@chicagobooth.edu

Josh Lerner
Harvard Business School
Rock Center 214
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/495-6065
Fax: 617/496-7357
E-Mail: jlerner@hbs.edu
M1  - published as Steven N. Kaplan, Josh Lerner. "Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges," in John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, editors, "Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges" University of Chicago Press (2017)

M3  - presented at "CRIW: Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses", December 16-17, 2014
AB  - This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance.  We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better.
ER  -