Sökning: "founding teams"

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  1. 1. Harmony in Hierarchy - A qualitative investigation of TMT impact on organizational performance of startups

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Författare :Gustav Dennelind; Thea-Marie Asselhoven; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Composition; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Effectiveness; Team Dynamics;

    Sammanfattning : Entrepreneurship is vital to economic and societal development, prompting an investigation into the success factors of entrepreneurial ventures. Research underscores the importance of founding teams to startups, citing the multiple ways top management teams and its members influence organizational outcomes. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Using Social Media and Personality Predictions to Anticipate Startup Success

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Författare :Daniel Stenson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Machine Learning; Startup Success Predictions; Founder Personalities; Natural Language Processing; Social Media Analysis; Big 5 Personality Framework; Feed-forward Neural Network; XGBoost.; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the potential of integrating predicted founder personalities, based on the Big 5 Personality Framework, into Machine Learning (ML) models to enhance the accuracy of early-stage startup success predictions. Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, we extracted personality insights from founders' tweets, focusing on US startups funded between 2013 and 2015. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Global Impact Investors’ Assessment of Early-Stage Social Ventures Through Digital Signals

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Ayesha Khalid; Dian Anindya Pramudito; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Impact Investing; Impact Investor; Social Venture; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Decision Making; Digital Signalling; Early Stage Venture; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Over the past decades, social impact investment has become popular because of its potential to solve pertinent world problems by financing social enterprises. This study focuses on assessing the influence of digital signals towards impact investors’ decision-making process when evaluating early-stage social ventures using digital media, by conducting exploratory qualitative research (semi-structured interviews) with 14 global impact investors (equity) who are investing in social ventures from pre-seed to series A stage. LÄS MER

  4. 4. And the similar shall lead: the role of the affinity bias in the Italian Venture Capital investment decisions

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Författare :Marco Parente; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Venture Capital; Behavioural Finance; Affinity bias;

    Sammanfattning : This paper analyses the role of the affinity bias in the Italian Venture Capital (VC) ecosystem. The background idea is that, when seeking for investment opportunities, VC funds' partners may be subject to psychological biases and unintentionally prioritise founders who share with them cultural and genetic features. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Team Attributes and Investor Attractiveness: The Relationship Between Founder Characteristics and Startup Funding

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Författare :Julius Martin; Clarence Von Rosen; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Startup funding; Startup founders; Early stage investing; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital;

    Sammanfattning : This paper examines the relationship between professional experience, education and gender diversity of startup founding teams and funding raised. Intuitively, experience and education should have a positive impact on funding in early companies as the founding team is a crucial part of the investment decision for early investors. LÄS MER