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Showing 1 to 20 of 311 for “"Founders"”.
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Concrete College and Its Founders
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Startup founders in high technology
Startup founders are thought to be the super women and men of the technology world these days. Many founders transition into the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) role within their companies and are expected to have the knowledge to lead large organizations through these fast growth and transition …
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Founders' Credentials and Performance of Startups
In this dissertation, I unpack startup founders’ characteristics and investigate their impact on the performance of young high-tech startups. I distinguish specific aspects of founders that convey their unobservable quality and human capital, and advance new arguments that deepen our understanding …
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Assessment of Founders in Venture Capital Investment Decisions
… investors in early-stage startups use to assess founders. One of the first questions posed by entrepreneurship researchers - even before entrepreneurship had formalized as a field - was, what criteria do investors consider when making investments in startups? Initially, the central concern was …
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When identities collide: becoming founders in pastoralist Kenya
… on varied responses to the identity conflict. Founders either maintain emphasis on extant identities, balance emphasis between some extant identities and some new identities, or transform to emphasize new identities, thus shaping who they become as a founder. When founders deviate from external …
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Methodism and its founders in eighteenth century literary satire
… the writer's interest in Methodism and its founders, as well as in eighteenth century social life and literature. For guidance in the selection of the subject, I am indebted to Dr. L. M. Ellison, whom I gratefully acknowledge as the source of inspiration and encouragement during the …
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Matching startup founders to investors : a tool and a study
The process of matching startup founders with venture capital investors is a necessary first step for many modern technology companies, yet there have been few attempts to study the characteristics of the two parties and their interactions. Surprisingly little has been shown quantitatively about …
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Founders' dynamics -- interpersonal relationships and between-team interaction in early startups
… very little is known about the effect that founders' interpersonal relationships have on the success of their companies, and the effect of their relationships with other startups located in the same innovation space on their performance. To investigate these relationships, we propose a …
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Center for the performing arts at Founders Park in Old Town Alexandria
The topic of this thesis has been approached mainly in four fields of investigation. First it has been investigated, in which way theater developed through the ages to make some conclusion of what a theater of the 21st century will be determined, especially with its distinction from the cinema. …
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Was the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment in CSARS v Founders Hill correct?
… be achieved by analyzing the judgment of the Founders Hill case and by looking at previously established cases. Articles from various authors will also be considered.
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Was the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment correct in the Founders Hill case?
This dissertation focuses on the Founders Hill case, and more on the judgment made by Lewis JA at the Supreme Court of Appeal. We will look at the arguments that have been made in favour and against Lewis JA's judgment, and then I shall comment on these arguments. Reference to tax law cases …
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Corporate governance, professionalisation and performance of IPO firms. The role of founders and venture capitalists.
… examines the role venture capitalists (VCs) and founders play with respect to both structural board characteristics and board capital in terms of experience and prestige and whether these are linked to performance. It claims that VCs and founders shape the governance system of the firms going …
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Founders Without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium-Tier of the London Stock Exchange
… others, have adopted WVR-structure where the founders own unlisted shares to which enhanced voting rights are attached, while public shareholders only hold inferior-voting shares. This can enable founders to diversify their wealth and generate equity finance without losing control. Founders …
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The impact of angel investors on founders of new ventures in the medical technology industry
Founders of new ventures in the medical technology (Medtech) industry require capital to establish, sustain, and grow their companies. Most founders must seek some form of external capital to meet these demands; in Medtech, the most well-known and prestigious of these is venture capital (VC). …
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Regional Differences in the Treatment of Karl Marx by the Founders of American Academic Sociology
… individuals are generally considered to be the founders of American academic sociology. Their writings can tell a great deal about the development of Marxian sociology in the United States. The present study supports the theory that those founders working at universities in the Midwest were more …
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Towards a grounded theory of how and why founders vary in their scaling approaches: Alleviating period poverty
… a qualitative, inductive field study of nine founders alleviating period poverty. Iterating between data collected and analysed and literature, I adjusted my research question based on the data themes identified, enabling me to answer how and why prosocial founders vary in their scaling …
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Tracing a Sacred Building Tradition. Wooden Churches, Carpenters and Founders in Maramures until the Turn of the 18th Century
… fundamental to identify the local builders and founders. The earlier blurred distinction between them veiled their separate roles in shaping the wooden churches and hindered us from a clear understanding of the results. For this reason the following two chapters are concerned with the church …
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The dynamics of forming a technology based start-up : how founders use external advice to improve their firm's chance of succeeding
External advice can be a valuable resource for founders of high technology startup companies. As with any resource, the pursuit and efficient use of the external advice resource is one of the greatest challenges for founders. This thesis examines how the founders of eleven US venture-backed …
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