The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is theformation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS).Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design ofbusiness models. The purpose of this paper is to explore how three keychallenges of...

Innovativität als Kriterium bei Venture-Capital-Investitionsentscheidungen Die Innovativität eines Gründungsvorhabens ist ein wichtiges Kriterium für Venture-Capital-Geber bei der Beteiligungsprüfung, jedoch weder konzeptionell noch durch Messungen leicht zu erfassen. Trotz dessen hoher...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how andwhy individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code—that is, on the“giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on thecorresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

Profiting from technological innovation requires both the development of new products and the capture orappropriation of profits from them. For new product development, the interplay of marketing and R&Dhas been intensively researched. In contrast, on the issue of capturing value, which is...