Expected 2027
Gumption
Book proposal accepted by Columbia University Press, on entrepreneurial intention and the decision to begin a new venture.
Thought leadership
Research, writing
and ideas.
Two decades of scholarship on the people and networks that make entrepreneurial economies work, from regional dealmakers to the everyday gumption behind every new venture.
Forthcoming book
Gumption
Accepted by Columbia University Press. An exploration of entrepreneurial intention: the decision to act with courage and determination.
Substack
Coming soon
Essays from the Luxembourg Research Academy work and excerpts from Gumption will be published here as they're written.
Books & chapters
2026
Entrepreneurial Leadership: Systematic Review, Entrepreneur, Leader & Sustainability
Entrepreneurial leadership (EL) fuses the opportunity-seeking rationale of entrepreneurship with the relational influence of leadership to spur value creation in uncertain, resource-constrained settings
2017
Is the Business Plan Really Dead and Should it Be?: A Case for the Lean Start-Up Approach
In this chapter, Ted and Alex F. DeNoble argue why it is important to adopt a lean start-up framework and approach in both entrepreneurship courses and in curriculum design in early-stage venturing.
Journal articles
2019
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and social network centrality: the power of regional dealmakers
This research explores the impact of “dealmakers” who are actors that have founded, managed, or invested in multiple private entrepreneurial firms, and hold concurrent equity ties to multiple firms. With Thomas G. Pittz and Rebecca White. Small Business Economics.
2015
The Economic Value of Local Social Networks
With Tom Kemeny, Maryann Feldman and Frank Ethridge. Journal of Economic Geography.
2012
Dealmakers in Place: Social Capital Connections in Regional Entrepreneurial Economies
With Maryann P. Feldman. Regional Science.
Reports
2021
Megatrends in the Future of Higher Education
Report for the University 4.0 project, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils.
1997
Evolution and Devolution: A National Perspective on the Changing Role of Metropolitan Organizations in Areawide Intermodal Planning
With Jeff Capizzano. Virginia Transportation Research Council.
Research, conference papers & dissertation
2020–present
Rainmakers Algorithm
Extends the Dealmakers Algorithm using LinkedIn, Crunchbase, AngelList and other relational data to find earlier indicators of ecosystem development.
2016–present
Entrepreneurs Genome Project
A longitudinal study of 150 entrepreneurs' career paths, breakouts and setbacks, yielding a framework for entrepreneurial journey mapping.
In progress
AI-supported accelerated venture development
Collaboration on training AI to support venture development, with Kenan-Flagler faculty.
2012
Do Regional Dealmakers Make a Difference?
With Frank Ethridge and Amol Joshi. Strategic Management Society Conference, Prague; nominated for the Practice Implications Award.
2010
The Dealmaker Milieu: The Anatomy of Social Capital in Entrepreneurial Economies
Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Articles & op-eds
2014
You Sold, You Sailed, You Bought a Tesla. Now What?
Inc. Magazine (online and print).
2012
The Zuck Distortion: Young Entrepreneurs Need Gen X, and Vice-Versa
Huffington Post Business.
2012
Why Startup Weekend is Entrepreneurship's Democratizer
Makers and Models column, Inc.
2011
Meet the Real Mother of Invention: Persistence
Makers and Models column, Inc.
2011
U.S. Entrepreneurs Need a 'True Global Mindset'
Huffington Post Business.