{"id":2626,"date":"2020-07-17T00:11:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2023-05-10T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:44:20","slug":"ai-startups-scaling-working-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/2020\/07\/17\/ai-startups-scaling-working-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fuels Growth? A Comparative Analysis of the Scaling Intensity of AI Start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Schulte-Althoff, Matthias, Daniel Fuerstenau, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gene Moo Lee<\/span>, Hannes Rothe, Robert Kauffman<\/b>.<b>\u00a0<\/b>\u201cWhat Fuels Growth? A Comparative Analysis of the Scaling Intensity of AI Start-ups\u201d. <em>Working Paper. <\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/344493810_A_Scaling_Perspective_on_AI_Startups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ResearchGate<\/a>]<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous title: &#8220;A Scaling Perspective on AI startup&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Presented at HICSS 2021 (SITES mini-track), Copenhagen Business School 2021, FU Berlin 2021, University of Cologne 2021, University of Bremen 2021, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2021, WITS 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\">We examine how firm revenue scales with labor for revenue-per-employee (RPE) and is moderated by firm-level AI investment. We compare AI start-ups, in which AI provides a competitive advantage, with digital platforms and service start-ups. We use propensity score matching to explain the scaling of start-ups and find evidence for sublinear scaling intensity for revenue as a function of labor. Our study suggests similar scaling intensities between AI and service start-ups, while platform start-ups produce higher scaling intensities. We show that an increase in employee counts is associated with major revenue increases for platform start-ups, while increases were modest for service and AI start-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schulte-Althoff, Matthias, Daniel Fuerstenau, Gene Moo Lee, Hannes Rothe, Robert Kauffman.\u00a0\u201cWhat Fuels Growth? A Comparative Analysis of the Scaling Intensity of AI Start-ups\u201d. Working Paper. [ResearchGate] Previous title: &#8220;A Scaling Perspective on AI startup&#8221; Presented at HICSS 2021 (SITES mini-track), Copenhagen Business School 2021, FU Berlin 2021, University of Cologne 2021, University of Bremen 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45231],"tags":[1264,5015,379631,45269,45267,4381942,4005,45266,45268,1350901],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-papers","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-crunchbase","tag-digital-startups","tag-firm-level","tag-platform","tag-scaling","tag-service","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/genemoolee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}