Entrepreneurship research examines the nature and diversity of founding teams' prior
experience to understand its influence on the new ventures' growth, which is often measured …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of founding team experience
(industry and venturing) in new venture creation. This paper posits the following questions …

How does the relationship between founding team composition and venture performance
depend on the venture's strategy and business environment? Using data from a novel …

Abstract Research Summary Building on human capital theory, this study establishes the
concept of the “sharedness” of competencies in founding teams. Based on prominent …

While earlier researchers have argued that the founding team's industry and start-up
experience should positively affect new venture performance, robust empirical support for …

The likelihood of nascent entrepreneurs making the transition from a new venture idea to a
profitable business is argued to be contingent on the breadth of the resources available …

Abstract Research Summary Although pre‐entry startup experience is widely recognized as
a driver of innovation in new ventures, a core feature of new venture teams is that their …

Using a unique longitudinal study of US biotechnology ventures, we advance extant
research by showing that a founding team's educational heterogeneity and prior founding …

Studies show that founders' industry-specific experience is beneficial to venture
performance. However, we know little on the contingencies associated with such an effect …

Startups' human capital, especially founding teams' pre-entry experience, has long been
studied as a determinant of their performance. However, little is known on the …