Data Analysis & Validity (jbv-data-analysis)

When to trigger

• Data are collected and it is time to estimate and report
• You are unsure the estimator matches an entrepreneurial-data structure (venture survival, founding choice, nested funding events)
• Reviewers will probe survivorship, selection into founding, or endogeneity
• A handling editor says "the analysis does not support the inference about entrepreneurship"

Match the estimator to the entrepreneurial data structure

JBV is methodologically pluralistic, so the right tool depends on the claim. Common patterns in new-venture data: