The influence of a start-up process on the entrepreneurs’ emotions, deduced by their Twitter accounts

Abstract

In this paper, entrepreneurship has been analysed along a temporal range, stressing the influence that being founded has on an entrepreneur’s emotions. Starting from a vast base of Twitter accounts, through the text analysis, have been extracted ratios concerning the presence within the Tweets of a positive and negative emotions. Those ratios have been calculated equating the amount of specific words referring to that emotions on the total amount of words tweeted every year by the entrepreneurs. Those people are mostly from US, and the investors founding their ideas undertook many different investment strategies. The main focus lays within the effect that the overall founding strategy has on the entrepreneurs’ emotions. The purpose is comparing those emotional ratios with the verification of the founding process. This aims to test how the emotions are affected by the fact that the start-up has been financed, or it has not received any funds. The results have been analysed through Stata, yielding interest findings shown along the whole paper.

Date of Award	17 Feb 2017
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Francesco Castellaneta (Supervisor)