William D. Bygrave

Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

231 Forest Street

Babson Park, MA 02457-0310

United States

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Pre-Startup Formal Business Plans and Post-Startup Performance: A Study of 116 New Ventures

Venture Capital Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1-20, October 2007, Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper No. 2008-8
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 31 Oct 2008
William D. Bygrave, Julian Lange, Aleksandar Mollov, Michael Pearlmutter and Sunil Singh
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New venture, Business plan, Performance, Entrepreneur, Business plan competition, Education, Gender, Experience

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Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: Relationships between Unemployment and Entrepreneurship in 37 Nations Participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2002

Babson College, Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC), 2002-2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Mar 2011
Marc Cowling and William D. Bygrave
University of Sussex - Institute for Employment Studies and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Downloads 1,226 (23,645)
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Entrepreneurship

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'The Entrepreneurship Paradigm' Revisited Seventeen Years Later

THE HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, Helle Neergaard & John Parm Ulhoi, eds., pp. 17-48, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, 2007, Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper No. 2008-10
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 07 Dec 2008
William D. Bygrave
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship, research, methodology, theory, statistical analysis

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Who Finances Startups in the USA? A Comprehensive Study of Informal Investors, 1999-2003

Babson College, Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC), 2002-2006
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Mar 2011
William D. Bygrave and Paul D. Reynolds
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and Florida International University, Eugenio Pino & Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
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Entrepreneurship

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Gem)-2002 Executive Report

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Michael Hay, Larry W. Cox, Paul D. Reynolds, Erkko Autio and William D. Bygrave
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Pepperdine University - Graziadio School of Business and Management, Florida International University, Eugenio Pino & Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurial activity, Industry sectors, Educational attainment, Business conditions, Early stage financing, Gender, Entrepreneurial environment, National differences, Startups, Public policies, Economic growth, Finance, Individual traits, Entrepreneurship education, Job creation, Males, R&D, Technology transfer, Angel investors, Age groups, Females, Venture capital, Policy analysis, Motivation, Demographics, Cultural attitudes, Family firms

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Do Business Plans Make No Difference in the Real World? A Study of 117 New Ventures

Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) 2005, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Julian Lange, William D. Bygrave, Aleksandar Mollov, Michael Pearlmutter and Sunil Singh
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Entrepreneurship

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Is Entrepreneurship a Teachable Profession? An Examination of the Effects of Entrepreneurship Education and Experience

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Mar 2014
Ed Marram, Julian Lange, David Brown, Joel Marquis and William D. Bygrave
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entrepreneurship, performance, education, experience

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Born Lucky? A Study of the Birthdates and Ages of Paradigm-Shifting Entrepreneurs

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Mar 2014
Julian Lange, Ed Marram, Ian Murphy, Joel Marquis and William D. Bygrave
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entrepreneurship, age, birthdate, outlier, personal computer, microcomputer

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For Love or Money? A Study of Financial Returns on Informal Investments in Businesses Owned by Relatives, Friends, and Strangers

REGIONAL FRONTIERS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH, L.M. Gillin, ed., Melbourne: Swinburne University, 2007, Presented at the AGSE Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, February 2007 , Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper No. 2008-09
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Oct 2008
William D. Bygrave and Stephen Hunt
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and London Business School
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Agency theory, Altruism, Informal Investor, Angel, Returns, Payback, 3F, GEM, Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneurship, Welfare Provision and Unemployment: Relationships Between Unemployment, Welfare Provision, and Entrepreneurship in Thirty-Seven Nations Participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2002

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2007, Babson College Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper No. 2008-02
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2008
Marc Cowling and William D. Bygrave
University of Sussex - Institute for Employment Studies and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
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No Financial Cleanup: A Study of Venture Capital Returns on Cleantech IPOs

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Mar 2014
William D. Bygrave, Julian Lange, Ed Marram, David Brown and Joel Marquis
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venture capital, clean technology, cleantech, IPO

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Financing Report 2009

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Apr 2014
William D. Bygrave
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
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entrepreneurship, informal investing, venture capital, startup financing

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Legitimation of Cleantech Companies: Venture Capital Financing and Federal Government Funding

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2014
Julian Lange, Luke Fehsenfeld, Ed Marram and William D. Bygrave
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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Gem) - National Entrepreneurship Assessment United States of America - 2003 Executive Report

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Maria Minniti, Maria Minniti and William D. Bygrave
Southern Methodist UniversitySyracuse University - Whitman School of Management and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurial education, Experimental/primary research, Cultural attitudes, Entrepreneurial activity, Ethnic entrepreneurs, Individual traits, Startup rates, Educational background, Males, Startups, Age, Angel investors, Early stage financing, Ethnicity, Females, Job creation, Venture capital, Gender

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: 2004 Financing Report

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Stephen A Hunt and William D. Bygrave
London Business School and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

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Self financing, Experimental/primary research, Global economy, Financing, Venture capital, Angel capital, Angel investors, Startups

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Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation for Economic Growth

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Jeffry Timmons and William D. Bygrave
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

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Early stage capital, Firm performance, High technology firms, Firm financing, Venture capitalists, Startups, Venture capital

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The Entrepreneurship Paradigm (I): A Philosophical Look at its Research Methodologies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
William D. Bygrave
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship research, Models, Theories, Academic fields, Longitudinal research, Case studies, Research design, Methodologies, Academic research

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Venture Capital at the Crossroads

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 04 Nov 2009
William D. Bygrave and Jeffry Timmons
Babson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Venture capital, Startups, Venture financing, Venture capitalists, Firm growth, Economic development, Investment policies, Public policies, Management skills

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Does an Entrepreneurship Education Have Lasting Value? A Study of Careers of 3,775 Alumni

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 31: 210-225, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Mar 2014
Julian Lange, Ed Marram, Ajay Jawahar, Wei Yong and William D. Bygrave
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entrepreneurship, intentions, education, business plans, alumni