Although an entrepreneur's initial strategy choices have a critical effect on a new venture's
survival, growth, and long‐term performance, few studies have explored how pre‐founding …

Tech-push ventures need to perform market search to find a viable initial market. A venture's
market search is at once constrained and enabled by founding teams' prior market …

The foundations of established firms are laid when, early in life, venture executives explore
dynamic landscapes in search of opportunities. During this search, the executive team …

Latecomer firms entering established industries face a pivotal strategic conundrum: Should
they prioritize learning from industry leaders or directly compete against them? This paper …

Researchers have long sought to understand how new ventures obtain initial stocks of
knowledge, recombine them into new inventions, and use them to pursue promising …

This paper explores how technologists differ in their timing of mobilizing support and
feedback from their network during the idea journey, and how such timing differences affect …

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 …

Prior research studies have found that even though new ventures face the possibility of
bankruptcy without large product portfolios on which to fall back, they are more innovative …

Start-ups founded by team members with prior shared experience in incumbent firms tend to
perform better than other start-ups. While the prior shared experience brings relevant …