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Go or No Go: Learning to Persuade in an Early-Stage Student Entrepreneurship Program
(2020-06)
Abstract—Background: Early-stage accelerator programs teach new entrepreneurs how to identify and exploit venture opportunities. In doing so, they implicitly teach these new entrepreneurs how to develop and iterate claims. ...
Editing the Pitch: Patterns of Editing Strategies of Written Pitches in a Chilean Accelerator Program
(IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2020-11)
Abstract—Background: After a six-month training program in the Chilean public accelerator Start-Up Chile,
entrepreneurs are asked to update a short pitch they wrote in the submission stage to appear in the program’s ...
The Price is Right: An Orders of Worth Analysis of Positions on Housing Prices
(SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 2021-10)
In this pilot study, we investigate how community leaders in a rural Texas small town argue about economic development. To study this, we examine 33 semistructured interviews collected by undergraduate interns and analyze ...
Scaling Change Labs: A Response to “From Mediated Actions To Heterogenous Coalitions: Four Generations Of Activity-theoretical Studies Of Work And Learning”
(Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2020)
In “From Mediated Actions To Heterogenous Coalitions: Four Generations of
Activity-Theoretical Studies of Work and Learning,” Engeström and Sannino
discuss the fourth generation of activity theory as involving ...
Linked but desynched: An OODA analysis of associated entrepreneurship accelerator programs
(Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2022)
Accelerators support fledgling ventures with a set curriculum, moving them through a cycle of venture development, culminating in a Demo Day pitch in which the ventures argue for their viability. Yet firms are often involved ...