The entrepreneurial function in digital entrepreneurial ecosystems. The resources potential of the innovative entrepreneur: Analysis based on the founders of the top five digital social networks (Facebook, Youtube, Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram)

Since the beginning of the 21st century, many digital social networks have been created by innovative entrepreneurs. The objective of this paper is to analyze how these entrepreneurs have created a digital entrepreneurial ecosystem thanks to their resources potential, which is a combination of three kinks of resources (knowledge, financial and social resources) that they extract from the institutional framework in which they are inserted.