Product Adaptation During New Industry Emergence: The Role of Start-Up Team Preentry Experience

The author thanks the editor and anonymous reviewers for many insightful contributions. He expresses a special thanks to Kathy Eisenhardt, who contributed substantially in the development of these ideas, and to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program for assistance and support. He also thanks participants at the West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship and Wharton Technology Conference for helpful reactions. He also thanks Riitta Kaila, Rory McDonald, Chris Bingham, Tom Byers, Phanish Puranam, Jackson Nickerson, Rajshree Agarwal, Jeff Dyer, Shyam Mehta, Scott Clavenna, and Travis Bradford for feedback on inputs on this paper.