Entrepreneurs struggle to pivot due to identity-based resistance, but overcoming this may be critical for business model experimentation. Convergent mixed methods reveal that entrepreneurial experience, startup mentoring, and team size enable pivoting, particularly regarding value propositions.

For failed crowdfunding projects, more market validation predicts commercialization performance.

How does the time of day influence early-stage investment decisions?

How do backers form mental representations of crowdfunding campaigns?

What kinds of gatekeeping hurdles do researchers face in the publishing process for entrepreneurship experiments? What can researchers do to increase their chance of success in publishing experimental work?

Which team configurations of imaginativeness result in higher quality new venture ideas? Which configurations result in lower quality new venture ideas?

This article portrays the entrepreneurial process as a mechanism through which “private obsession” fulfills “public need.”