“Pivot Like Your Life Depends On It!” Mastering Early-Stage Business Experimentation
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.
You don’t want to be too distinct!
An analysis of the optimal point that favors the most products within a company
Pivoting or Persevering?
To persevere, entrepreneurs position actions as continuation of the past, extend timelines and complexify temporal ordering.
Different Strategies Adopted by Corporate Accelerators
Creating CAs is an emerging approach to facilitate innovation between corporations and ventures.
Escaping the knowledge corridor
How is human capital and founder coachability related to product innovation?
Survival and growth outcomes for young firms
How dangerous is dependence on a key customer for a young firm? What can the firm do to manage such dependence?
Globalization and Affordability of Microfinance
How does globalization affect the affordability of microfinance?
Do we understand each other?
Where do opportunities come from? How do entrepreneurs determine whether an idea is good or not?