Dependent variable Profitability = 1 Model 8 Odds ratio Model 9 Odds ratio Model 10 Odds ratio
monitored external funding invested, amount (logs) 0.146* 1.157* 0.370* 1.448* 0.237 1.267
(0.067) (0.145) (0.388)
personal funding invested, amount (logs) 0.295** 1.343** 0.387 1.473 2.117+ 8.307+
(0.102) (0.292) (1.160)
unmonitored external funding invested, amount (logs) 0.134 1.144 0.013 1.013 0.272 1.313
(0.093) (0.261) (0.427)
household net-worth, logs -0.119+ 0.888+ 0.019 1.020 0.916 2.499
(0.071) (0.199) (0.564)
educ. (1=community, or some college) 0.279 1.322 0.298 1.347 2.092* 8.098*
(0.197) (0.411) (1.005)
educ. (2=college or some graduate training) 0.281 1.324 0.608 1.836 1.685 5.390
(0.216) (0.504) (1.060)
educ. (3=postgraduate studies) 0.095 1.100 0.692 1.998 2.642+ 14.042
(0.262) (0.600) (1.591)
industry exp. (years) 0.157* 1.170* 0.011 1.011 0.695 2.003
(0.080) (0.181) (0.460)
start-up exp. (years) 0.034 1.035 0.225 1.253 -0.019 0.981
(0.106) (0.229) (0.390)
managerial exp. (years) -0.108 0.898 -0.113 0.893 -0.117 0.890
(0.097) (0.215) (0.541)
bonding – social capital 0.083 1.086 0.131 1.140 -0.156 0.855
(0.067) (0.138) (0.306)
bridging – social capital 0.082 1.085 0.328+ 1.389 0.730* 2.075*
(0.070) (0.189) (0.363)
team size 0.185* 1.204* 0.343+ 1.408+ 0.646 1.909
(0.079) (0.202) (0.732)
growth asp. (“as large as possible” =1) -0.213 0.808 0.549 1.731 0.009 1.009
(0.176) (0.476) (1.122)
type of business (=1, extractive sector) -0.609 0.544 -0.160 0.852 -1.801 0.165
(0.383) (0.595) (1.694)
type of business (=2, transforming sector) 0.516** 1.676** 0.578 1.783 1.116 3.053
(0.193) (0.417) (1.043)
type of business (=3, consum. oriented sector) -0.137 0.872 -0.216 0.806 1.342 3.825
(0.164) (0.397) (0.964)
type of business (=4, other sectors/na) -1.061 0.346 -13.965 0.000 -15.147 0.000
(0.861) (991.1) (1,634.1)
Constant -0.448* 0.639* -0.977* 0.377 -3.062* 0.047*
(0.199) (0.427) (1.218)
Observations 938 217 68
Log Likelihood -610.481 -126.246 -32.663
chi-square 76.4 (df=18, p-value <0.001) 30.1 (df=18, p-value <0.05) 23.4 (df=18, p-value> 0.1)