In the 1980s, Robert Ronstadt of Babson College conducted a 12-year study into the subsequent careers of the graduates of the school’s MBA program in entrepreneurship. post ![]()
The most successful graduates were those who created multiple ventures and lengthened the duration of their entrepreneurial careers by using what Ronstadt calls the “Corridor Principle.”
> The Corridor Principle states that the mere act of starting a venture enables entrepreneurs to see other venture opportunities they could neither see nor take advantage of until they had started their initial venture. pdf ![]()
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Richard Sears points out that an entrepreneur skill is rapidly assessing opportunities (checking behind the doors in the corridor) once one has a going concern.
We suspect that there is a corridor effect present in all system design activities.
See On Page Lifetime for excerpts of deliberation.
See Accumulating Opportunity where this is a given.