Family financing has become a powerful channel for entrepreneurs to obtain entrepreneurial funding. How do family members use intent and quality signals to select new ventures to provide lending support? Building on the signaling theory, this study provides the first quantitative evidence using a sample of 166 samples of family lenders in China. Our findings reveal that psychological capital can support entrepreneurs to obtain family lending. As an intent signal, psychological capital becomes more influential when quality signals, corporate competitive advantage, and firm performance perform more positively. This study emphasizes that family financing support is not only out of love or altruism and extends the literature concerning the influence of positive psychological capital in financial investment decisions.

How to absorb failure experiences to achieve reunification and turn crises into opportunities is crucial for enterprises. We examine the effect of learning from failure on new ventures’ sustainable development from the lens of resource orchestration theory. With 193 samples of entrepreneurs in Mainland China, this study provides the first quantitative evidence regarding how learning from failure influences new ventures’ sustainable development through entrepreneurial dynamic capability and strategic decision comprehensiveness. Stepwise regression analysis results show that learning from failure has a positive impact on the entrepreneurial dynamic capability and strategic decision comprehensiveness. Entrepreneurial dynamic capability and strategic decision comprehensiveness positively influence new ventures’ sustainable development, and exert mediating roles between learning from failure and new ventures’ sustainable development.

The fate of new ventures incubated by the same corporate ecosystem is different. Can entrepreneurs’ ideas affect the way out of incubating companies? Based on self-verification theory and symbiosis theory, we took millennial entrepreneurs as the research object, combined with entrepreneurial enterprises’ data in the makerspace. We analyzed the impact of millennials’ entrepreneurial values on new ventures growth and explored the mediating role of entrepreneurial symbiosis networks. The following conclusions are obtained by analyzing the questionnaire of 191 millennial entrepreneurs: Millennials’ entrepreneurial values significantly promote new ventures growth. The strength and scale of the entrepreneurial symbiosis network have a positive impact on new ventures growth. The entrepreneur symbiosis network acts as an intermediary between the millennials’ entrepreneurial values and new ventures growth.