The Power of Alumni Networks - Success of Startup Companies Correlates With Online Social Network Structure of Its Founders

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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Main Authors: Nann, Stefan, Krauss, Jonas, Schober, Michael, Gloor, Peter A., Fischbach, Kai, Führes, Hauke
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
Subjects:
startup success
founder networks
online social networks
entrepreneurship
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66586

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