Straight from the horse's mouth: Founders' perspectives on achieving ‘traction’ in digital start-ups

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Highlights:

• Success factors from the perspective of digital start-up founders.

• ‘Digital start-up mindset’ discovered as an extension of entrepreneurial mindset.

• Vision, purpose, values, timing and focus helps a start-up founder set a trajectory.

• Continuous learning by naïve founders is a significant factor.

• TrAction framework combines key insights from the research.

摘要

•Success factors from the perspective of digital start-up founders.•‘Digital start-up mindset’ discovered as an extension of entrepreneurial mindset.•Vision, purpose, values, timing and focus helps a start-up founder set a trajectory.•Continuous learning by naïve founders is a significant factor.•TrAction framework combines key insights from the research.

论文关键词:Digital entrepreneurship,Digital start-ups,Internet start-ups,Entrepreneurial performance

论文评审过程:Received 31 August 2017, Revised 8 February 2018, Accepted 1 March 2018, Available online 1 March 2018, Version of Record 12 March 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.002