Success and Risk Factors

SCALES-paper N200314

SUCCESS AND RISK FACTORS IN THE PRE-STARTUP PHASE

Marco van Gelderen Roy Thurik Niels Bosma Zoetermeer, November 2003

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SUCCESS AND RISK FACTORS IN THE PRE-STARTUP PHASE

Marco van Gelderen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Telephone +31 6 50 48 85 81. Fax +31 20 444 60 05. E-mail: margeld@dds.nl. and EIM Business and Policy Research. Roy Thurik Rotterdam School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO box 1738 Rotterdam, the Netherlands....