Pacing Entrepreneurs to Success.

What Entrepreneurs Gain Pacers tend first to offer intensive, short-term programs, like many other entrepreneur support organizations, and then graduate entrepreneurs into a long-term, post-program support infrastructure. We explain the type of long-term - even lifetime - value pacers deliver to entrepreneurs, outlining their organizational structures, providing options for how other entrepreneur support organizations may wish to put the blueprint into practice, and showcasing some of the challenges that pacers currently face. In a similar vein, entrepreneur support organizations can engage well-respected alumni in strategy sessions, charting out a new vision of how the organization can benefit their alumni. Our research has uncovered a novel type of entrepreneurial support organization that we call a pacemaker organization, or pacer, which offers an alternative for emerging-market entrepreneurs. [Extracted from the article]