Ten Case Studies of Venture-backed Firms and their Investment Companies

Abstract

It is widespread knowledge among experts of research strategies that both qualitative and quantitative methods have their own value. At its best, a comprehensive research design would include both approaches in order to overcome the deficits of each strategy. However, there are reasons for deciding which strategy would be more appropriate given the proposed questions. Pragmatic reasons (the available research budget or time) as well as context-related reasons, often influence this decision, such as a very heterogeneous field of investigation, for example, in cases where the necessity of pilot or exploratory research is very great.