Repeat Founder
A Repeat Founder is a person starting a new business after having previously started or owned at least one business; the category does not require a prior exit or prior success.
What the role involves
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Greater longevity of a subsequent business is one observable success signal used in serial-entrepreneurship research.
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Sales and productivity are additional observable performance signals, but the reported advantages are specific to the studied Danish cohort.
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What shapes the decisions
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Self-selection remains a competing explanation for repeat-founder outcomes, even when research designs attempt to isolate learning by doing.
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People and working context
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Venture investors are a recurring counterparty for the subset of repeat founders raising institutional capital.
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