Abstract
The entrepreneurial networking gives opportunities for an entrepreneur to meet business partners. The network is theoretically distinguished into inter-personal or inter-firm, and tight or loose coupling. Using this framework, two case studies are conducted. There are three major findings. Looseness or tightness is determined by six variables. Second, inter-firm networks emerge from inter-personal networks. Especially, a loose inter-personal network has a potential to create a tight inter-firm network. Lastly, the utilization of the Internet makes the loose network to be both much looser and slightly tighter.
