Financial Enlightenment of the Entrepreneurship Dark Side from the Experience in Spain

Abstract

This paper aims to provide financial enlightenment of what we define as the dark side of entrepreneurship. Our ideas come mainly from our experience with start-ups at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in Spain since 2004. The main conclusion is the development of entrepreneurial skills among the young entrepreneurs but also, we perceived the existence of a dark side of entrepreneurship associated with the risk/return equation that it seems not to be fair.