Essays about: "Founder Personalities"

Found 3 essays containing the words Founder Personalities.

  1. 1. VC Investment Decisions: Hunches, Metrics, or Coin Flips?

    University essay from

    Author : Xia Hallding; August Källström; [2023-06-30]
    Keywords : Venture Capital; investment decisions; metrics;

    Abstract : Venture capitalists (VCs) face a complex decision-making process when selecting startups to invest in. This qualitative single case study aims to highlight the factors VCs take into account and how their decisions vary depending on the investment area and startup stage, where previous research has yielded conflicting conclusions. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. The personality venture capitalist look for in founder: An artificial intelligence approach to personality analysis

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.)

    Author : Mathias Brandt; Stefan Stefansson; [2018]
    Keywords : Venture capitalist; Investment criteria; Entrepreneurs; Personality of entrepreneurs; Artificial intelligence;

    Abstract : To date, the usual analysis of an entrepreneur personality is primarily a gut feeling of the venture capitalist and is hard to codify. This paper aims to explore in a qualitative way what it is about the characteristics and the personality of the entrepreneur that influences the investment made by the venture capitalists. READ MORE