Blogging is a complex phenomenon that is hard to define. The more a blog is visible, the more it is capable to attract advertising and consequently to monetize the authors‟ effort in keeping it alive and appealing. Therefore a blog can be considered as a minimalist organization, a way of doing...

In this paper we analyze the success of startups in Germany by looking at the social network structure of their founders on the German-language business-networking site XING. We address two related research questions. First we examine university-wide networks, constructing alumni networks of 12...