Abstract Research Summary This study examines the impact of startup acquisition on acquired employees' propensity for entrepreneurship. As a new owner, acquirer may not prioritize ideas to be commercialized internally, thereby increasing odds that they are pursued externally. Leveraging employee‐employer matched data from U.S. Census high‐tech acquisitions and their workforce in 1990–2011, I fi...

The article considers a startup as form of conducting modern innovative business. interpretation the concepts “business” and “entrepreneurship”, well their fundamental differences, is presented. During survey existing entrepreneurs, real problems doing business in Republic Belarus were identified, an attempt to build ecosystem Belarusian startups was made.

This paper presents a model of the software-focused, venture-backed entrepreneurship found in the San Francisco Bay Area, or “Silicon Valley.” Three kinds of markets matter in the model: (1) the financial market for venture capital, (2) the labor market for engineers, and (3) the collection of product markets successful technology companies serve. The key economic actors are elite “engineers” w...

Motor startup speed profile of motor rotational speed versus rotational angle can often be very useful during product developments, such as for detailed kinematic or dynamic component analyses. In compressor tests, a sensor, usually a proximity probe or an optical pickup, is commonly used to generate low-resolution timing signals. The lowresolution timing signals are sufficient to detect the an...

While much attention has been paid to company founders, very little is known regarding the first set of non-founder employees who join high-growth startups ("early employees"). This paper explores the wage differential between venture capital-backed startups and established firms given that the two firm types compete for talent. Using data on graduating college students from MIT, I find that VC...

Technology companies are investing billions of dollars in educational technology, but also creating their own alternative schools. This article traces the emergence of four prototypical ‘silicon startup schools’ as exemplars of a technocratic mode of corporatized education reform: IBM’s P-TECH, part of its Smarter Cities program; AltSchool, a chain of schools based on ‘makerspaces’ established ...