What factors drive the scaling up of firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems? We address this question by investigating whether startup founders' within-ecosystem social ties explain firms' relative success. We develop a novel database of startup companies and their founders in two markets (fintech...

We develop a taxonomy – Oxford Venture Ecosystem Taxonomy (OVET) -- to classify technology startup ventures along six dimensions: 1) the area of work, 2) purpose of technology use, 3) types of clients, 4) value capture strategy, 5) founder and funder characteristics, and 6) geographical...

In what ways does knowledge similarity among co-founders contribute to venture scaleup? This paper addresses this question by taking account of knowledge domains among early employees and in founders’ social networks. We build a theoretical framework to predict which knowledge combinations are...