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Mentoring is vital to developing talent. A critical puzzle in designing mentorship programs involves how mentors are matched to mentees: Would mentees benefit more from mentors with a similar or different demographic background? The article [Germann F, ...

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. Participants can choose between a piece rate and a tournament scheme in either private or public. We find that in the private condition, entrepreneurs are less ...

Universities are expected to produce chempreneurs, entrepreneurs from the chemistry faculties. Chempreneurs are expected to change the industry and to transform the chemical industry towards sustainability. However, German chemistry students are ...

Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer ...

We used confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in start-up ...

Entrepreneurs face financial dilemmas on a regular basis. These dilemmas are centred on taking major financial decisions such as how much of cash, debt, fixed cost, working capital and dividend is good for the firm i.e. whether the entrepreneurs should ...

Studies have demonstrated that foreign firms locate where immigrants from their home countries reside and have suggested that doing so can improve performance. We argue that to properly assess how immigrants impact the performance of co-national firms, ...

In this paper, we investigate the realities, challenges and socio-economic implications of blockchain technology adoption from the ecosystem perspective, mainly the public and private sectors stakeholders, and entrepreneurs and start-ups. A holistic, ...

Where does generalized trust—that is, the inclination to place trust in strangers—come from? Our claim is that in economic action, sources of generalized trust may not differ much from the sources of personalized trust. Contrary to a common assumption of ...

The objective of the study was to address key issues of small-sized firms' development to identify the reasons why many small enterprises are incapable of growth and to move into a medium-sized business. We present the concept of the Information Problem ...

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes toward risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a ...

Information technology IT and entrepreneurship are more closely related than ever. The internet, in particular, inspires the current 'generation start-up'. While some early stage internet start-ups have quickly become major successes, others fail to ...

The positive side of stress, eustress, has remained an understudied area in psychology, health technology and HCI. Based on 21 qualitative interviews with entrepreneurs on their positive stress experiences, we aim at providing implications for ...

We develop a model of how a start-up firm's networking for innovation is embedded in the personal network around the entrepreneur. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurships Monitor including 11,792 start-ups from 38 countries surveyed in 2012--13, we ...

As support grows for greater access to information and data held by governments, so does awareness of the need for appropriate policy, technical and legal frameworks to achieve the desired economic and societal outcomes. Since the late 2000s numerous ...

The new generation of innovators seems willing to trade pristine landscapes for the messiness of city life. An audio podcast is available at http://youtu.be/ecZd4VZOEJA. The authors disucss how the new generation of innovators seems willing to trade ...

Entrepreneurs need encouragement but also training and experience. The featured Web extra is the latest installment of the Forward Slash podcast.

This work investigates how entrepreneurs use social networking sites for business. Through surveys, online discussions and interviews, we have looked at activities, motives for participating on networking sites for business, motives for contributing, ...

Prior firm experience, firm capabilities, and the industry environment are known to be important determinants of new-venture performance. We hypothesize that firm experience prior to setting up a new venture influences the ability to learn from ...

The World Wide Web Foundation has started the Mobile Entrepreneurs in Africa program to teach local entrepreneurs about Web technologies, the market for services, and the specific business principles in the mobile sector. The program comprises four ...