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Deconstructing misconceptions about startups, the new responsibility devolved to entrepreneurial support actor
[Déconstruire les idées reçues sur les start-up, la nouvelle responsabilité dévolue aux acteurs de l’accompagnement entrepreneurial]

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  • Thomas Houy

    (SES - Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales - Télécom ParisTech, ECOGE - Economie Gestion - I3 SES - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris - Télécom ParisTech - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

  • Flavien Bazenet

    (I3 SES - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris - Télécom ParisTech - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IMT-BS - MMS - Département Management, Marketing et Stratégie - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris])

Abstract

The intense media coverage of the startup ecosystem has led to the dissemination of misconceptions about entrepreneurship. This article shows that first-time entrepreneurs believe in these misrepresentations. The results of this research therefore give a new prerogative to the actors of the entrepreneurial support world: to deconstruct all the clichés and false representations about startups that are popularized by the press.The article is based on survey data from 90,278 people who revealed their interest in starting a business between 2007 and 2018. We isolate the answers given by digital entrepreneurs (n=1,425) and compare them to those of other respondents (n=88,853). Examining the beliefs of this large panel of respondents shows that digital first-time entrepreneurs believe they can access high revenues, predict success with a high probability, go into entrepreneurship relatively unprepared, and anticipate improved employability if their business fails.

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  • Thomas Houy & Flavien Bazenet, 2020. "Deconstructing misconceptions about startups, the new responsibility devolved to entrepreneurial support actor [Déconstruire les idées reçues sur les start-up, la nouvelle responsabilité dévolue au," Post-Print hal-03541792, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03541792
    DOI: 10.3917/entin.047.0039
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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurial coaching; Digital entrepreneurship; Accompagnement entrepreneurial; Entrepreneuriat numérique; Mythes; Start-up;
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