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Entrepreneurial activities are very common seen in Taiwan. More then 100 enterprises are born everyday. Entrepreneurial activities are means of self-fulfillment, pursuing for wealth, and they also create lots of employment chances. Entrepreneurship researches focus on innovation, risk-taking, decision-making, tolerance for ambiguity. Thus entrepreneurs give us an impression individualism. But as a matter of fact, about 40% of the enterprises are owned by more than two persons. Entrepreneurs should work together. But how? In order to understand how the entrepreneurs work together, I interviewed 16 entrepreneurs who have the experiences of team working. There are several issues concerned the entrepreneurial teams: the reasons why they work together, the criterion they choose the partners, the problems facing the entrepreneurial process, the relationship of entrepreneurial teams, the reasons of their separation, the drawbacks of entrepreneurial teams. The results of this research indicate that: 1. They choose to work as a team because of: Acquisition of knowledge, leadership, and capital. Reducing the loss of capital. Finding someone to talk to. 2. The criterion of choosing partners: Knowing each other. Similar point of views. Complement of characters. 3. The problems facing the entrepreneurial process: Deficiency of capital, and technique. Human resource training. Regulation of laws. Depression. 4. The relationship of entrepreneurial teams: Pure business partners. Friends. Master-disciple. Relatives. 5. The reasons of their separation: The conflicts of characters. The allocation of profits. The loss of money. The way of running business. 6. The drawbacks of entrepreneurial teams: It is hard to allocate profits. The pressure of human nature. Sub-groups. It is hard to achieve a shared view.
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