We study how US branch banking deregulations a¤ected the entry and exit of …rms in the non-…nancial sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for …rms responded to changes in banking competition. We also distinguish the re...

Digital startups’ use of AI technologies has significantly increased in recent years, bringing to the fore specific barriers deployment, use, and extraction business value from AI. Utilizing a quantitative framework regarding themes startup growth scaling, we examine scaling behavior AI, platform, service startups. We find evidence sublinear ratio revenue age-discounted employment count. The re...

Abstract This research aims to describe the dynamics of applying project-based entrepreneurial learning (PBEL) in creating startups at higher education institutions. Action was used for eight participants as method by PBEL model form a narrative method. The results revealed that all university students can produce products, starting from prototypes until business products. drives successful sta...

Abstract Corporate accelerators (CAs) have emerged as a key component of entrepreneurship ecosystems, offering startups corporate guidance, industry connections, and resources for accelerated venture creation. Although their proliferation is evident, we still know little about the value they produce across different contexts. This study investigates organizational setup program design 15 CAs in...

The recent pandemic crisis has greatly impacted startups, and some changes are expected to be long-lasting. Small businesses usually have fewer resources more vulnerable losing customers investors, especially during crises. This study investigates how startups’ business processes were affected entrepreneurs managed this sudden change brought by the COVID-19 outbreak. Data analyzed using qualita...

In today's world startups are playing a key role to stimulate the economy, solve pressing problems and create fulfilling employment opportunities. However, the failure rate of startups in the US, one of the most prominent countries for encouraging startups, has been eight out of ten, a very high proportion. In this thesis, I explore this topic further with a hypothesis that company's sustained ...

Abstract How large is entrepreneurs’ personal importance to startups? We use the death of nearly 1,500 entrepreneurs as a source exogenous variation, and find sustained negative effects on growth profitability. For small startups, go mainly via firm survival, while for larger startups are growth. mean effect sales about 60%. The appear be driven by entrepreneur specialness rather than leadershi...