Are You Experienced or Are You Talented?: When Does Innate Talent versus Experience Explain Entrepreneurial Performance?

We explore whether entrepreneurial performance is due to innate talent or the accumulation of entrepreneurial experience. Using a novel data set with multiple observations of founding attempts per individual, we generate a unique measure of entrepreneurial talent. In contrast to prior findings, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eesley, Charles E., Roberts, Edward B.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88058
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-6525