Jürgen Christopher Thiesen
Research Assistant & Doctoral Student
Team
- Building Q Room 1.032
- +49 40 42878-4845
- juergen.thiesen@tuhh.de
Biography
My research interests include the wide field of green technologies and sustainable entrepreneurship.
Research Interests
- Green Technologies/Clean Technologies
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Renewable Energy
Appointments & Education
- PhD in Management & Engineering
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
2023 - current - Business Development Manager
GP JOULE Connect GmbH, Germany
2021 - 2022 - Master of Science in International Management and Engineering
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
2021 - Working Student Business Development and Product Management
GP JOULE Connect GmbH, Germany
2021 - Internship in Controlling Development and Project Controlling Digitization
Audi AG, Germany
2020 - Exchange Semester
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2019 - Internship Research and Development Electric Grid
ABB AG, Germany
2018 - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Management
Kiel University, Germany
2018 - Working Student at the Chair of Power Electronics
Kiel University, Germany
2017
Selected Publications
Academy of Management Proceedings 2025(1), 18846 (2025)
Conference Paper
Venture Capital (VC) investments positively impact startup success, enhancing operational performance through factors like collaboration and value-added services. While research on investment decisions primarily focuses on investors’ selection criteria and decision-making processes, our study addresses the gap in founders’ perspective. Using Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT) for text classification on a dataset of 8,561 online VC reviews, we extract 9,229 unique value-criteria from founders’ perspectives. A text-embedding cluster method categorizes these criteria into 26 categories. By analyzing additional startup lifecycle data, we determine which value-criteria are crucial at different startup stages. Our findings reveal that investors’ “general social skills” are the most important value-criteria across all startup stages, while more mature startups prioritize more self-serving criteria focused on growth and long-term relationships. Additionally, we observe that founders mostly fulfill the value-criteria by investors, with “general advice” being particularly well-executed.
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