The road to entrepreneurial success: business plans, lean startup, or both?

Title of Document : ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF - EFFICACY AND THE SUCCESS OF SUBSEQUENT VENTURE STARTUP AFTER FAILURE

Everyone experiences failure at some point in their lifetime. Entrepreneurs, especially, have a high incidence of failure, with estimates that over sixty percent fail within six years. Yet, a high percentage of failed entrepreneurs recover and persevere to start another business. Sometimes, they even become " serial entrepreneurs " who start many businesses. How do entrepreneurs recover from fa...

The Business of Startup Law: Alternative Fee Arrangements and Agency Costs in Entrepreneurial Law

The Road to Success

Do MANAGEMENT COURSES in schools of library and information studies provide the necessary knowledge for born leaders to become great managers? What makes a good leader has recently been a hot topic in the literature. The conclusions reached have been that change is inevitable and how a leader responds to this change is the mark of how effective he or she will become. The focus of writings in th...

Analyzing Success of Startup Entrepreneurs by Measuring their Social Network Distance to a Business Networking Hub

In this project we compare the success of startup entrepreneurs and innovators with their social networking behavior. In particular, we analyze the LinkedIn, Facebook, and e-Mail network of swissnex, Switzerland’s science and technology outpost in Boston connecting Swiss and American entrepreneurs and academics for collaborative work. We invited 500 members of the swissnex community to share th...

The Road to Organizational Success

S uccess in today's highly competitive marketplace will impose new and different demands on organizations. In many industries, a variety of highly similar products and services proliferate to the point where it is not uncommon for customers to have difficulty differentiating one from another. The road to corporate success no longer can be traversed merely with good products and clever marketing...