NEW PAPER w/ Ruiqing Cao & Ramana Nanda!

We find that entrepreneurs launching tech products aimed at women experience less growth & investment.

Why? Sampling bias.

Early adopters in tech are 90% male which leads to distorted signals of potential and a product gender gap.🧵 Full paper here:
osf.io/preprints/soca…

At the heart of our paper is the fact that entrepreneurs rely on "lean" product launches---often on platforms like Kickstarter and Product Hunt---to gain early users, test the viability of their ideas, and spur traction/investment.

@profhamel enjoyed the talk... especially the section on field experiments starting at minute 40!

There is an emerging community of b-school professors running *rigorous* and *relevant* management field experiments.

Tagging some papers below.

I hope it inspires some optimism.

https://twitter.com/profhamel/status/1319722727352090624

With @RonnieChatterji @shariqueorg and Solene Delecourt (@HarvardHBS @DukeFuqua @BerkeleyHaas) we have run RCTs looking on whether and when getting advice improves startup growth. Advice helps, especially for entrepreneurs with less training:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New working paper!

“The Value of communication” w/ Stefan Dimitriadis @rotmanschool

Using a RCT in Togo we find that “communication practices” cause entrepreneurs to share more information, form more/better relationships, and increase profitability. Why?

Thread follows 👇 1/ First of all, this paper comes out of Stefan’s amazing dissertation work @HarvardHBS.

Stefan interviewed ~50 entreprenerus in Togo.

The interviews revaled that entrepeneurs has trouble communicating with one another.

For example, one entrepreneur commented: