The Power of Alumni Networks - Success of Startup Companies Correlates With Online Social Network Structure of Its Founders
In this paper we analyze the success of startups in Germany by looking at the social network structure of their founders on the German-language business-networking site XING. We address two related research questions. First we examine university-wide networks, constructing alumni networks of 12 G...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66586 |