Yashar Mansoori

Chalmers University of Technology · Department of Technology Management and Economics

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the instructions of the lean startup methodology influence entrepreneurs. It explores what happens when such instructions are enacted by entrepreneurs in the context of a “prescriptive accelerator”. The goal is to shine a light onto the mechanisms by which these instructions are acquired and then...

We combine Herbert Simon's view of design with the common distinction between reality as discovered or created to develop experimentation and transformation as ideal types of entrepreneurial design. Building on the design tradition's view of artifacts, we describe how opportunities-as-artifacts iteratively develop at the interface between organized...

There has been a growing interest among entrepreneurs and students in explicit guidance for entrepreneurial action. Both scholars and practitioners have responded to this demand by suggesting a variety of entrepreneurial methods. This has led, however, to a proliferation of relatively unrelated methods with varying degrees of rigor and relevance. I...

The lean startup methodology has been steadily gaining widespread popularity during the past few years. As part of this trend, startup accelerator programs have begun to adopt the methodology as their main organizing framework. At the same time, coaches and their coaching practices lie at the core of many accelerator programs. Despite the widesprea...

Entrepreneurship in general and entrepreneurship education in particular are becoming more accredited and institutionalized. This is evidenced by a large number of entrepreneurship cour- ses and programs offered in top-tier universities worldwide. However, with some notable excep- tions such as effectuation and the lean startup methodology, this tr...

Designing requires skills that are different from making and is an integral part of venture creation. To encourage considerations of design in entrepreneurship education, this paper elaborates how designing can be embedded in entrepreneurship education as a distinct composite capability to be developed. It outlines a perspective of entrepreneurial...

Quantum computing is a new paradigm for a multitude of computing applications. This study presents the technologies that are currently available for the physical implementation of qubits and quantum gates, establishing their main advantages and disadvantages and the available frameworks for programming and implementing quantum circuits. One of the...

The interest in approaches for creating new ventures has been amplified by a recent surge in practitioner-driven entrepreneurial methods. Entrepreneurship education programs in prestigious institutions as well as prominent incubators and accelerators have started adopting these methods. However, there are only few insights into how these methods re...

This paper contributes to the discussion of how entrepreneurship can be fruitfully conceptualized as a systematic method. Having reviewed the literature using a five-dimensional framework— view of uncertainty, role of vision, nature of rules and principles, view of individuals, and purpose of method—we find that entrepreneurship can be usefully gro...