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  • Research: Accelerator expertise and Entrepreneurship

    https://twitter.com/kshtriya/status/1222242341291020288

    This study “Accelerator expertise: Understanding the intermediary role of accelerators in the development of the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem” looked at the intermediary role of accelerators in the developing regional entrepreneurial ecosystem of Bangalore.
    Researchers Suresh Bhagavatula, Ketan Goswami and J. Robert Mitchell analyzed data from 54 interviews with accelerator graduates, accelerator managers, and other ecosystem stakeholders and from 49 websites, 13 online video interviews, 26 online news sources, and 301 pages of policy documents.
    They adopted a socially situated entrepreneurial cognition approach to theorize how accelerator expertise,

    • Existing at a meso‐level,
    • Intermediates between (micro‐level) founders and the (macro‐level) ecosystem.

    In this model researchers focused on four different types of accelerator expertise :

    • connection
    • development
    • coordination
    • and selection

    which together increase stakeholders’ commitment to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, leading to venture validation (success or failure) and ecosystem additionality.


    The findings indicate that accelerators contribute to ecosystems in a way that is distinct from, but supportive of, building individual ventures.

  • Entrepreneurship and fitness landscape.

    A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity.


    This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions:

    • Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations.
    • Exploit the most out of a particular landscape.

    This principle is applicable to entrepreneurial search for a repeatable, scalable and sustainable business models(Explore). Once a working model is created then the entrepreneurs job is to make it work. (Exploit)

    The following video give a fair idea about the metaphor of fitness landscapes.

  • Research: Why entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?

    According to the paper titled ” Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial
    children?”    :

    • Kids whose parents were entrepreneurs are 60% more likely to become founders.
    • By using data on adoptees, this paper shows that about 1/3 of the effect is nature, and 2/3 is from upbringing.
    • It is also strongest from mother to daughter & from father to son
  • Entrepreneurship in education by Martin Lackéus of Chalmers University: Video Playlist

    Entrepreneurship in education by Martin Lackéus of Chalmers University: Video Playlist

    Entrepreneurship in education – 10 min mini-seminar series in 6 part

     

  • Tweet: Nobody can regularly predict which early startups will go big

  • Tweet: Entrepreneurship Peers and Mentorship

  • Tweet:Complexity, Ecosystem, and Network Effects

    https://twitter.com/kshtriya/status/1197569559357771778

  • Tweet: How founder passion affects investors of different levels

    This study explored how variation in entrepreneurs’ displayed passion affects informal investor interest in start-up ventures by examining neural responses to entrepreneurs’ pitches using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
    It found that founders displaying high passion increase investor neural engagement by 39% and investor interest in the venture by 26% over those displaying low passion.
    A one standard deviation increase in neural engagement is associated with an 8% percent increase in investors’ interest in investing in a start-up company relative to the mean.
    These findings indicate that neural engagement may account for some of the effects of founder passion on investor interest.

  • Stanford’s “Technology-enabled Blitzscaling” with Greylock Partners: Video Playlist.

    Blitzscaling means rapid scaling.

    This course ‘Technology-enabled Blitzscaling’ examines how technology enables this hyper growth and how technology can help entrepreneurs and organizations manage that growth.

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  • Video Playlist: Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship by Chuck Eesley

    Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship.

    Following is a MOOC offered by him in 2012.

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