The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: How Early-stage Startups Build Partnerships

摘要

How early-stage new ventures develop partnerships has remained underinvestigated mostly due to the difficulty of observing their dynamic development processes. In this study, I have observed eighteen startups in embryonic stage directly every day by working as an in-house mentor for six months. My longitudinal in vivo observations result in three distinctive types of partnerships among early-stage startups: transaction-, relationship-, and collaboration-based partnerships.