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  • 1.  database

    Posted 07-28-2006 11:25
    I would like to study the relationship between founding team composition and
    startup performance.

    Would anyone have suggestion on the best place to find such information in
    an archival database?

    For instance, beyond financial information (fund raised, IPO, etc.), details
    would provided about the members of the founding team: age, nationality,
    education, gender, etc., if possible at each round.

    Thanks in advance.

    Best,

    Fabrice Cavarretta

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  • 2.  database

    Posted 07-28-2006 21:15
    In a message dated 7/28/06 2:22:24 PM, fabrice.cavarretta@INSEAD.EDU writes:

    >I would like to study the relationship between founding team composition
    >and startup performance.

    >Would anyone have suggestion on the best place to find such information
    >in an archival database?
    >
    >For instance, beyond financial information (fund raised, IPO, etc.), details
    would provided about the members of the founding team: age, nationality,
    >education, gender, etc., if possible at each round.
    >
    >
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    Fabrice -

    I have a problem with your working assumptions.

    By "team," do you exclude the entrepreneur who starts from scratch and THEN
    adds resources? In the US, I believe most businesses are started as sole
    proprietorships, with the initial personnel additions being family members. What is
    a "team?"

    "Startup performance?" What's that? Why wouldn't you look at performance 1, 2
    or 5 years AFTER startup?

    What are these "rounds" you talk about and who established them?

    You might Google "family business" and related topics to check the
    literature. I believe there are some US organizations/institutes that are interested in
    identifying startup behaviors/characteristices in an effort to replicate
    success in subsequent generations.

    The "leadership" literature might also be a place to check. Fortune did an
    article in the late 80s/early 90s on the "10 Toughest Bosses In America" that
    commented on (IIRC) the circumstances that molded them and, therefore, their
    organizations.

    HTH.

    Regards, Marty

    Martin Asdorian Jr., Ph.D.

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  • 3.  database

    Posted 07-31-2006 08:25
    Dear Fabrice,

    here are two articles on the subject. The first relies on IPO prospecti,
    and the later on a database called "CorpTech":

    Cyr, L. A., Johnson, D. E., & Welbourne, T. M. 2000. Human Resources in
    Initial Public Offering Firms: Do Venture Capitalists Make a Difference?
    Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 25(1): 77-91.

    Sine, W. D., Mitsuhashi, H., & Kirsch, D. A. 2006. Revisiting Burns and
    Stalker: Formal structure and new venture performance in emerging
    economic sectors. Academy of Management Journal, 49(1): 121-132.


    I have heard a number of related articles at conferences, but I am not
    sure if they have been published yet.

    Best Regards,

    Erik

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    Fabrice Cavaretta wrote:
    > I would like to study the relationship between founding team composition and
    > startup performance.
    >
    > Would anyone have suggestion on the best place to find such information in
    > an archival database?
    >
    > For instance, beyond financial information (fund raised, IPO, etc.), details
    > would provided about the members of the founding team: age, nationality,
    > education, gender, etc., if possible at each round.
    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > Fabrice Cavarretta
    >
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    > PhD Student - OB Dept. INSEAD
    > http://www.insead.edu/phd/careers/fcavarretta/index.htm
    > Maps and Biblio of Organizational Theory: http://ot.cavarretta.com
    >
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  • 4.  Database

    Posted 08-12-2006 10:48

    Thanks to all the answers I got so far. It seems that there's no straightforward archival sources to relate demographics attributes of the entrepreneurial/founding team to startup performance. If anyone has any second thoughts on it, I'd love to take it.

     

    I gather here replies and a summary of what I received, for the benefits of all and to trigger any other idea on the matter.

     

    • Panel Study on Entrepreneurial Dynamics (thanks E. J. Reedy [ereedy@kauffman.org] and Chris Rider [<st1:personname w:st="on">rider@haas.berkeley.edu</st1:personname>]): very good panel data on team composition, used for instance by {Ruef, 2003 #6252}, designed by and for researchers. But, it seems under-developed on the performance/outcome per startup. Since it is a survey, impossible to complement by matching to other public sources.

     

    • IPO filings (thanks Qin Yang [anneyang@temple.edu] and Erik Monsen [monsen@econ.mpg.de]): such data are rather rich given the management info in the S1 Filings. If one is interested in nascent firms, it implies a strong selection on the dependent variable bias (only firms reaching IPO appear).

     

    • CorpTech (thanks Erik Monsen [monsen@econ.mpg.de]): good financial data, but executive data is limited to name, title, function.

     

    • CapitaIQ: good financial data, but team demographic information is very limited, and only current value (no historical). Basically, age is indicated sometimes, and more details may be available when a full text self provided bio is available.

     

    • VentureXpert-SDC/VentureOne (thanks to Benjamin L Hallen [hallen@stanford.edu]): good financial data, but information limited to names and (in the case of VentureOne) dates.

     

     

    • Various people mentionned private data collections (see Eisenhardt, Beckman, etc.)

     

     

    Best to all,

     

    Fabrice Cavarretta

     

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    Date:    Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:24:37 -0400

    From:    Fabrice Cavaretta <fabrice.cavarretta@INSEAD.EDU>

    Subject: database

     

    I would like to study the relationship between founding team composition = and startup performance.=20

     

    Would anyone have suggestion on the best place to find such information i= n an archival database?=20

     

    For instance, beyond financial information (fund raised, IPO, etc.), deta= ils would provided about the members of the founding team: age, nationality, education, gender, etc., if possible at each round.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Best,

     

    Fabrice Cavarretta

     

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