Up until now, studies on entrepreneurs and their relationship to business performance have focused primarily on analyzing the entrepreneur as an individual. While studies have been conducted on the entrepreneurial team, their focus has centered on team size and degree of diversity - cultural, age, gender - leaving a gap in the analysis of the effect of a team’s competencies on the outcome of the ventures. This research aims to help fill this gap by using the psychometric instrument DISC. This research analyzes entrepreneurship by opportunity, evaluating the performance of 109 Colombian companies and the composition of their entrepreneurial teams. The results obtained provide the basis for better understanding of the make-up of entrepreneurial teams, considering the variances and interdependencies of the competency development level among their members. They reveal that identifying the similarity or heterogeneity in certain groups of competencies, as well as how developed they are, can have an impact on the ventures’ success. The cluster analysis carried out suggests that highly developed competencies associated with the ‘dominance’ dimension in the members of an entrepreneurial team are essential. These must be above-average in heterogeneous levels among the team members. They must also be accompanied by the ‘steadiness’ competency provided by the team-oriented partners, as well as an average, homogeneous level of competencies associated with ‘conscientiousness’ if the new business is to achieve good financial results in its early years. The ‘influence’ dimension did not play a significant role. The teams made up of more homogeneous partners obtained the poorest financial results. Furthermore, the study provides new perspectives for measuring business performance in a venture, as well as for evaluating the relationships between the entrepreneurial team's competencies and the company’s results in the first years of business. Accordingly, it offers inputs for future research.

到目前为止，有关企业家及其与企业绩效之间关系的研究主要集中于分析企业家个人。虽然已经对企业家团队进行了研究，但他们的关注点集中在团队规模和多样性程度（文化，年龄，性别）上，从而在分析团队能力对企业成果的影响方面存在差距。这项研究旨在通过使用心理测量仪器DISC来填补这一空白。这项研究通过机会分析了企业家精神，评估了109家哥伦比亚公司的绩效及其创业团队的组成。获得的结果为更好地了解创业团队的构成奠定了基础，考虑其成员之间能力发展水平的差异和相互依存关系。他们发现，确定某些能力组中的相似性或异质性以及它们的发展程度会对企业的成功产生影响。进行的聚类分析表明，与企业家团队成员中“主导”维度相关的高度发展的能力至关重要。在团队成员之间，这些级别的平均水平必须高于平均水平。如果新业务要在早期阶段取得良好的财务业绩，还必须伴随着以团队为导向的合作伙伴提供的“稳定”能力，以及与“尽责”相关的平均同等能力。“影响力”维度没有发挥重要作用。由同质性更强的合作伙伴组成的团队获得的财务业绩最差。此外，该研究为衡量合资企业的业务绩效以及评估创业团队在创业的头几年的能力与公司业绩之间的关系提供了新的观点。因此，它为将来的研究提供了投入。