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Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research Volume 32 | Issue 10 Article 1 CHAPTER X. TEAMS 6-9-2012 SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT: HOW FOUNDER TEAM C OMPOSITION AND ENTREPRENEUR SHIP MOTIVATION AFFE CT START-UP VALUE ADDED J onas Debrulle K U Leuven, jonas.debrulle@econ.kuleuven.be J ohan Maes IESE G School of Managem ent Luc Sels K U Leuven Recommended Citation Debrulle, Jonas; Maes, Johan; and Sels, Luc (2012) SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT: HOW F OUNDER TEAM COMPOSITION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOTIVATION AFFECT START-UP VALUE ADDED, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 32: Iss. 10, Article 1. Available at : /fer/vol32/iss10/1 This aper is brought to you for free and open access by the Entrepreneurship at Babson at Digital Knowledge at Babson. It has been accepted for inclusion in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research by an authorized administrator of Digital Knowledge at Babson. For more information, please contact digitalknowledge@. Debrulle et al.: HOW FOUNDER TEAM COMPOSITION MOTIVATION AFFECT START-UP VALUE FRONTIE RS OF E N T RE P RE N E U RS HIP RES EARC H 20 12 SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT: HOW FOUNDER TEAM COMPOSITION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOTIVATION AFFECT START-UP VALUE ADDED  Jonas Debrulle, KU Leuven, Belgium Johan Maes, IESEG School of Management (LEM-CNRS), France Luc Sels, KU Leuven, Belgium AbstrAct This study investigates the relationship between new venture team composition and start-up performance, measured as value added. We consecutively introduce the level and heterogeneity