Entrepreneurship
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DESANTOLA, Alicia
GULATI, Ranjay
How Young Ventures Grow and Professionalize
For fledgling ventures, part of the growth process is to develop key systems, both external (such as marketing and sales) and internal (such as accounting and human resources). To date, most researchers have assumed that these systems develop uniformly as ventures scale and complete developmental milestones. According to HKUST’s Pavel I. Zhelyazkov and ... Read More
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ZHOU, Jieyu
GE, Lipeng Gary
CHANDRASHEKAR, Subramanya Prasad
Entrepreneurs and Expropriation in China
In China, start-ups with high-profile leaders are at risk of becoming victims of government expropriation, HKUST’s Jiatao Li and colleagues have found. This effect is particularly pronounced in areas where income inequality is high, and the legal system is underdeveloped. However, the authors find that entrepreneurs can protect themselves by establishing ... Read More
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DUSHNITSKY, Gary
SARKAR, Sayan
Seed-stage Investment Decisions
In 2019, there were over 4,700 seed-stage investments globally, along with significant recent interest in how resources are mobilized during the earliest stages of the entrepreneurial journey. Seed-stage startups work towards finalizing their product or services in addition to gathering market data. This also includes finding enough funding to develop an ... Read More
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SARKAR, Sayan
Need Funds? Ask Investors on A Sunny Day
How and why can irrelevant, short-lived factors shape investment decisions? This can happen in investment decisions in nascent, seed-stage startups, where information is scarce and uncertainty is intense. Taking sunshine on the day of deal evaluation as a context, we show that in the face of intense uncertainty, sunnier days may affect investors’ mood and ... Read More
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