The aim of this paper is to better understand how entrepreneurial equity finance interacts with the complex growth process of young technological ventures. More specially, we investigate how different growth paths are influenced by the entrepreneurs' interactions with different categories of...

A spin-out happens when an employee quits a company to start a new venture; however, theories do not agree on whether the "spin-out entrepreneur" will start the company in the same or in a different industry. We investigated a sample of 250 entrepreneurs and 120 spin-out companies to understand...