Nascent entrepreneurs must leverage valuable resources, including human, financial, intellectual, and social capital in order to increase the likelihood of success. With the rise of networking technologies such as LinkedIn, Biznik, Cofoundr, and Facebook, social network analysis, long utilized as a method for organizational analysis, has taken center stage in popular understanding of entrepreneurial success. The composition and quality of social networks, however, varies among male and female entrepreneurs and can have a direct impact upon the business outcomes for each. Using PSED data, this research investigates the gendered differences and structural disparities in the networks of early entrepreneurs.

The Hickson compact groups, displaying regions of high galaxy densities, should provide environments where galaxy evolution occurs rapidly. The repeated galaxy interactions and mergers present in compact groups increase the rate of star formation and increase the number of X-ray binaries. A fraction of the H i gas will also become heated via stirring and shocks, which yields extended diffuse, hot gas halos that can encompass all members of a compact group. Using a sample of 16 Hickson compact groups from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory archives, we report on a correlation between the diffuse X-ray gas and the total X-ray point source population luminosities. The correlation of the X-ray gas and point source luminosities is further examined to establish a general evolutionary trend.