Speeding products to market: waiting time to first product introduction in new firms.

We used the techniques of event-history analysis to examine the speed with which newly founded organizations ship their first products for revenues, an important entrepreneurial event. In a longitudinal study of new ventures in the U.S. semiconductor industry, we found that substantial technological innovation lengthens development times and reduces the speed with which first products reach the marketplace. Organizations that undertook lower levels of technological innovation, had relatively lower monthly expenditures, whose founding organizational structures included both a manufacturing a