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Table 6

Illustrative quotes relating to the aggregate dimension of Monitored introductions

Aggregate dimension	Second-order themes	Examples of illustrative quotes
Monitored introductions	Introductions of interaction episodes with external counterparts to develop organization	Informant #26 (Start-up co-founder): “Do I feel like the venture builder has provided me with something that I wouldn’t have been able to get without them? Definitely, I think from the resources but also the confidence to move forward, some of the things I’ve learned about, the workshops and sessions, the different people I got connected to…those are some great relationships that I’ve built, the conferences that I went to, so definitely, it would have looked totally different, I’ve probably wouldn’t have thought that I could do this.” Informant #22 (Start-up co-founder): “Their job is to collect investors and to provide ideas. I am using them for this reason. They represent also my company when they talk with investors” Informant #3 (Start-up co-founder): “Because you could ask any question and someone in the world would have thought about or worked on a similar topic. So it could be about commercialization, it could be about hiring talent, it could be legal problems. It could be about running the company as a female founder. It could be any topic, and you post your question, or you read about it. And also… they share candidates or job openings, and I think that community is very valuable”
Monitored introductions	Monitoring the process and open doors to enable “insidership”	Informant #1 (VB management): “We arrange the whole process, invite investors. It can be customers, it can be industry experts, it can be psychologists, it can be anyone” Informant #27 (Start-up co-founder): “It was very important early on as we had a pre-project with an external party where it was important to be able to match investments, then [the venture builder] came through for us” Informant #4 (VB management): “And then it is the ecosystem, they are not in the system. They don’t have access to advisors. They may have a mentor that they know or a previous manager or colleague. So, I think, we give them a wider selection that I don’t think they could get by themselves. And with that we hope to increase their chances of becoming successful”

Aggregate dimension	Second-order themes	Examples of illustrative quotes
Monitored introductions	Introductions of interaction episodes with external counterparts to develop organization	Informant #26 (Start-up co-founder): “Do I feel like the venture builder has provided me with something that I wouldn’t have been able to get without them? Definitely, I think from the resources but also the confidence to move forward, some of the things I’ve learned about, the workshops and sessions, the different people I got connected to…those are some great relationships that I’ve built, the conferences that I went to, so definitely, it would have looked totally different, I’ve probably wouldn’t have thought that I could do this.”Informant #22 (Start-up co-founder): “Their job is to collect investors and to provide ideas. I am using them for this reason. They represent also my company when they talk with investors”Informant #3 (Start-up co-founder): “Because you could ask any question and someone in the world would have thought about or worked on a similar topic. So it could be about commercialization, it could be about hiring talent, it could be legal problems. It could be about running the company as a female founder. It could be any topic, and you post your question, or you read about it. And also… they share candidates or job openings, and I think that community is very valuable”
Monitored introductions	Monitoring the process and open doors to enable “insidership”	Informant #1 (VB management): “We arrange the whole process, invite investors. It can be customers, it can be industry experts, it can be psychologists, it can be anyone”Informant #27 (Start-up co-founder): “It was very important early on as we had a pre-project with an external party where it was important to be able to match investments, then [the venture builder] came through for us”Informant #4 (VB management): “And then it is the ecosystem, they are not in the system. They don’t have access to advisors. They may have a mentor that they know or a previous manager or colleague. So, I think, we give them a wider selection that I don’t think they could get by themselves. And with that we hope to increase their chances of becoming successful”

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