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Going it all alone in web entrepreneurship?: a comparison of single founders vs. co-founders

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Spiegel, Olav Fischbach, Kai Abbassi, Puja Schlagwein, Daniel
Abstract	There is a considerable amount of entrepreneurial activity in the information technology (IT) industry, especially in the Web. Many claim that the founders are the single most critical factor in startup success. The entrepreneurial self-efficacy theory and the jack-of-all-trades theory suggest that founders with diverse skills and broad experience will be able to successfully create a business alone. Alternatively, social capital theory suggests that founders who have high social capital and who engage in social networking will be able to go alone. Others, however, claim that team building is crucial for startup success as to bringing complementary skills together. In this study, we investigate if having a diverse skill set, higher experience, or more social connections is indeed a determinant of single founders, while co-founders have more specialized (yet complementary) skills. Our results are derived from analysis of 91 Web startups and their 183 (co-) founders. Contradicting existing theory, we could not find determinants for starting a new business alone. However, we find that co-founders do indeed complement each other's skills. Our results suggest that existing entrepreneurial theory needs to be expanded and revised to accommodate for the contradictions found and that future research is required in this area.
Starting Page	21
Ending Page	32
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450319751
DOI	10.1145/2487294.2487301
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2013-05-30
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Startups Human capital Jack-of-all-trades theory Team diversity Social networks Founding teams Web entrepreneurship Founders Social capital Co-founders Entrepreneurial self-efficacy theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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