Despite the marital status of most entrepreneurs, our understanding of spousal influence on entrepreneurship remains limited. We conducted qualitative analysis on 18 spouse-entrepreneur pairs to explore the interactive nature and evolution of venture-related roles within couples. The study reveals that aligning entrepreneurial and spousal roles enables progress through innovation, creation, and growth stages. This extends existing literature on venturing roles, highlighting the significant impact of spouses in entrepreneurship.

The study analyzes how the market overlap between startups founded by former employees of parent organizations affects their performance. The researchers propose that market overlap has a curvilinear relationship with the likelihood of survival of spin-outs. The previous hierarchical position of founders moderates this relationship. Market overlap helps reduce uncertainty, but too much overlap may lead to hostile actions by parent organizations, creating disruptive competition that lowers spin-outs' survival. The study uses European biotech spin-outs and their parent firms as a sample and finds support for the hypotheses.

Aligned capacity building and aligning incentives with political actors enable ventures to overcome alignment challenges.

Comparing the survival of family member spawns, nonfamily member spawns and spawns from nonfamily firm parents.

To persevere, entrepreneurs position actions as continuation of the past, extend timelines and complexify temporal ordering.

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

How do mental health factors influence entrepreneurial activity and outcomes?

How do infrastructure investments affect business growth and job creation? What effects does it have on exit rate and job destruction?

How dangerous is dependence on a key customer for a young firm? What can the firm do to manage such dependence?

How do entrepreneurs change the market dynamics of a regulated market? What can entrepreneurs do when agreement cannot be achieved with regulators?