Startup Size and Pre‐Entry Experience: New Evidence from Italian New Manufacturing Ventures*

Andrea Furlan

Journal of Small Business Management, 2019, vol. 57, issue 2, 679-692

Abstract: The paper studies the nonlinear effects of the different types of founders' pre‐entry experience on startup size. Our empirical data consists of 3,456 Italian new ventures in 20 industries. We find that the presence of industry‐specific experience and entrepreneurial experience have a positive effect on startup size while generic experience does not exert any effect on startup size. Moreover, we find that industry‐specific experience has positive but diminishing returns on startup size up to a point where additional amounts of experience have negative effects on startup size (inversed U‐shaped relationship).

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12427

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