At the start of the 1980s, entrepreneurship was, at best, a potentially promising field of scholarly
inquiry. However, by the end of that decade, due primarily to impressive advances in its …

… Similarly, attractors are produced by plotting X,+, against X,, X1+s against X,, X,+4 against
X,, and so on (Bygrave 1989b). An irregular time series may be treated as chaotic if it is …

Venture capital firms are linked together in a network by their joint investments in portfolio
companies. Through connections in that network, they exchange resources with one another. …

… Wiiiiam Bygrave received extensive training In his first research methodology at Oxford …
Becoming a" double doc" last spring, Professor Bygrave shares his Insights Into research and …

Venture capital (VC) has had a profound impact on the US and world economies. The landmarks
of venture capitalism are the formation of the venture capital fund ARD in 1946 and the …

… entrepreneurial marketing in two books edited by William Bygrave and Andrew Zacharakis.
… Bygrave has founded a venture-capital-backed high-tech company, managed a division of a …

The networking of 464 venture capital firms is analyzed by examining their joint investments
in a sample of 1501 portfolio companies for the period 1966–1982. Some of the factors that …

Would-be entrepreneurs hoping to start a new venture and novice entrepreneurs with fledgling
businesses get a summary of the essential ingredients of successful entrepreneurship …

An element in the never-ending debate about the process of funding highpotential businesses
is the extent to which venture capitalists add value besides money to their portfolio …

Previously, there has been little empirical evidence about the role of venture capital in
fostering technological innovation. Recent research, sponsored by the National Science …