Essays about: "Entrepreneurial trajectory"

Found 5 essays containing the words Entrepreneurial trajectory.

  1. 1. Using Social Media and Personality Predictions to Anticipate Startup Success

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Daniel Stenson; [2023]
    Keywords : Machine Learning; Startup Success Predictions; Founder Personalities; Natural Language Processing; Social Media Analysis; Big 5 Personality Framework; Feed-forward Neural Network; XGBoost.; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the potential of integrating predicted founder personalities, based on the Big 5 Personality Framework, into Machine Learning (ML) models to enhance the accuracy of early-stage startup success predictions. Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, we extracted personality insights from founders' tweets, focusing on US startups funded between 2013 and 2015. READ MORE

  2. 2. Growth and Success: In the Context of Startups in Sub-Saharan Africa

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Dunja Stevanovic; Michelle Wanyang Ochieng; [2023]
    Keywords : Startups; Sub-Saharan Africa; Growth; Success; Nystartade företag; entreprenörskap; Afrika;

    Abstract : Sub-Saharan Africa is currently witnessing a proliferation of innovative startups, brimming with immense potential, yet grappling with formidable adversities that hinder the realisation of their latent capabilities to tangible economic benefits and substantial developmental progress for the region. Employing a qualitative research approach, this study investigates the internal and external factors that shape the growth and success trajectories of startups. READ MORE

  3. 3. Exploring gender-related stereotypical challenges: The influence of these challenges on the founding female entrepreneur during her entrepreneurial trajectory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Maxime van Esseveld; Fleur Bets Susanna Rozendaal; [2022]
    Keywords : Female entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial trajectory; Gender stereotypes; Female capacities; Aspiration to grow; Role expectations; Female entrepreneurs’ legitimacy; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The fastest rising group of entrepreneurs is represented by females, yet entrepreneurship is still considered a male-dominated industry. Female entrepreneurs have to deal with gender-stereotypical challenges, due to the overrepresentation of men in entrepreneurship. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
    Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

    Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE

  5. 5. Does entrepreneurship and its motives have an impact on economic and employment growth? A Panel VAR analysis on EU-15 countries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Dimitrios Skopelitis; [2017]
    Keywords : Entrepreneurship; economic growth; employment growth; necessity; opportunity; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Entrepreneurship has historically played a major role on the growth of economies. Its impact on countries’ economic and employment growth has been theoretically as well as empirically studied. The literature indicates a clear positive relation of entrepreneurship to those macro figures. READ MORE