Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs
研究Y Combinator加速器如何通过教学、启发式方法和设计选择，帮助创业者培养应对矛盾冲突的悖论心态，对创业教育者和加速器运营者有参考价值。
Startup founders often encounter paradoxical tensions. Yet, whether and how startup accelerators can equip founders to embrace such contradictions remains underexplored. Our study of Y Combinator reveals that accelerators can play a pivotal role in cultivating an entrepreneurial paradox mindset by exposing founders to teachings about paradoxical tensions, imparting heuristics to navigate them, and implementing thoughtful design choices to foster learning—particularly through vicarious and experiential learning opportunities. This study integrates paradox theory into entrepreneurship research, contributes to understanding the interplay between accelerator design choices and entrepreneurial learning, extends knowledge of entrepreneurial mindsets, and provides several practical insights.