Blake Jackson

finance PhD student @UF

[NBER @nberpubs]

Human capital factors predict career progression and investment outcomes in venture capital. Achieving superstar status increases access to highly valued startups, from @blake_ajackson and Ilya A. Strebulaev https://t.co/S1AmJ9lQKD

[SSRN @SSRN]

VC success is extremely concentrated: 5% of VCs generate 90% of profits. Education, experience, and Midas‑List status shape access and outcomes, revealing deep human‑capital heterogeneity. https://t.co/BtKiyRrTXm #VentureCapital #HumanCapital

[Elif N. Guler @elocan_kt]

🚀 Join us for the 7th @workshopefi Student-Led Workshop!

📅 Nov 10, 2025 | 12:30 PM EST | Virtual
🏆 Best Paper Award: $500

Explore cuting-edge research in entrepreneurship, innovation & finance with PhD students & faculty!

🔗 Register & Program: https://t.co/570R5Ff9Ao

[Tarikua Erda @TarikuaErda]

Tune in this Friday (Nov 1) at 12:30pm Eastern for the 6th @WEFI student-led workshop!

We have an exciting line-up of papers by PhD students and discussions by expert faculty.

Registration: https://.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-iqqzIiG9IzJjjjW-HFGnciViKSHz0x#/registration

[Tarikua Erda @TarikuaErda]

📢Call for student papers📢

Submit your paper to the 6th Student-led Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (WEFI)!

📆Event: Nov 1, 2024
Submission deadline: Sept 27, 2024
Submit via 📧: [email protected]
🏆 Best paper prize: $500
https://t.co/E4MQKgdk88

[Razan Amine @Razan_Amine1]

NBER SI was full of learning & fun! With this diffusion between innovation and entrepreneurship bootcamps, I’m excited to see how ideas turn into projects & conversations into collaboration :)

[Michael Ewens @startupecon]

Deadline is today. Great event for PhD students run by our amazing WEFI Fellows @workshopefi.

[Roham Rezaei @rohamrezaei_en]

📢 PhD students in entrepreneurial finance or innovation! Submit your papers for the 5th WEFI student-led online workshop.
📅 Submission Deadline: Sep 15th. Event: Nov 13th.
Details and past programs 👉
https://t.co/2lYQ8zewcj

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

While public markets are constantly repriced in full view of the world’s investors, shares in private firms are traded far more rarely and opaquely https://t.co/0RNeNESbEJ

[FT Alphaville @FTAlphaville]

The volatility laundering, return manipulation and ‘phoney happiness’ of private equity https://t.co/wcJaVIoWvT

[Minmo Gahng @mgahng]

I am on the job market for an assistant professor in finance this year.

Under the supervision of Jay Ritter (https://t.co/QQUETgZ2PU), @startupecon, and @robinson_fuqua, I study empirical corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance.

[Institutional Investor @iimag]

How Allocators Are Complicit in the Manipulation of PE Returns
https://t.co/S40YG37ZIh

[@scottjshapiro.bsky.social @scottjshapiro]

Ran 40,000 computer simulations and in all of them I made numerous programming errors

[Kyle Hill @Sci_Phile]

This video of pandas just being pandas while a zookeeper desperately tries to rake leaves is the best video on the internet https://t.co/XknWMhEMbk

[Computer Cowboy @benbbaldwin]

Sort of awe-inspiring how badly the Cowboys bungled the past year.

They had their best QB, CB, and WR set to hit free agency and before extending any, handed a $90 million contract to a running back who wasn't even going to be hitting free agency until 2021.

[Caio Brighenti 🇧🇷 @CaioBrighenti]

As we discovered today from @PFF_Eric and @benbbaldwin, burgers are important to the analytics conversation. So, I looked at NFL offenses and how many burger joints their cities have. The results? The Dolphins had a terrible offense this year, but they sure had a lot of burgers.

[Big Tucson Dad @BigTucsonDad]

Thinking about business

[Bloomberg Originals @bbgoriginals]

Google launched its cloud gaming service Stadia this week, but is it any good?