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Team collaboration capabilities as a factor in startup success
2018
[EN] This paper discusses the role of team collaboration as a building block for cultivating capabilities in technology-based startups. This conceptual framework draws on a literature review of innovation and entrepreneurship research to understand the intra-organization collaboration mechanisms among team members in technology-based startups. Introducing the concept of team collaboration capabilities represents a new approach to understanding the interaction conditions that give rise to new capabilities from a venture team as its organizational base. Rapid new capability building represents a competitive advantage in environments characterized by innovative technological change, known as d…
100+ Metrics for Software Startups : A Multi-Vocal Literature Review
2019
Metrics can be used by businesses to make more objective decisions based on data. Software startups in particular are characterized by the uncertain or even chaotic nature of the contexts in which they operate. Using data in the form of metrics can help software startups to make the right decisions amidst uncertainty and limited resources. However, whereas conventional business metrics and software metrics have been studied in the past, metrics in the spe-cific context of software startup are not widely covered within academic literature. To promote research in this area and to create a starting point for it, we have conducted a multi-vocal literature review focusing on practitioner literat…
StartCards — A method for early-stage software startups
2023
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Context: Software startups are important drivers of economy on a global scale, and have become associated with innovation and high growth. However, the overwhelming majority of startups ends in failure. Many of these startup failures ultimately stem from software engineering issues, and requirements engineering (RE) ones in particular. Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of RE activities in the startup context, many startups continue to develop software without a clear market or customer, having never had meaningful contact with their would-be customer. Objective: We develop a method aimed at early-stage startups that is intended to help s…
100+ Metrics for Software Startups : A Multi-Vocal Literature Review
2018
Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates?
2015
There are two competing hypotheses explaining how innovativeness influences the survival of startups: On the one hand, innovativeness is argued to foster survival-enhancing attributes (e.g., market power and cost efficiency) and capabilities (e.g., absorptive capacity). On the other hand, an innovative startup faces (and bears the associated risks of) liabilities of newness and smallness that exceed those of its non-innovative counterparts. The available empirical literature addressing this theoretical tension mostly supports the former hypothesis; we suggest that this finding is, in part, driven by the common practice of employing an ex post measure that already embodies a degree of succes…
Software Startups – A Research Agenda
2016
Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models. Softwarestartups are quite distinct from traditional mature software companies, but also from micro-,small-, and medium-sized enterprises, introducing new challenges relevant for software engineeringresearch. This paper’s research agenda focuses on software engineering in startups, identifying,in particular, 70+ research questions in the areas of supporting startup engineering activities,startup evolution models and patterns, ecosystems and innovation hubs, human aspects in softwarestartups, applying startup conc…
Latvijas jaunuzņēmumu panākumu faktori veidojot augstas izaugsmes tehnoloģiju jaunuzņēmumu
2022
Tā kā pārliecinoši lielākā daļa jaunuzņēmumu negūst panākumus, šī maģistra darba autors izvēlējās izpētīt, kādi ir Latvijas jaunuzņēmumu veiksmes faktori augstas izaugsmes tehnoloģiju jaunuzņēmumu izveidē, kas ir šī maģistra darba mērķis. Pētījums tiek veikts, veicot esošās literatūras analīzi, statistisko datu analīzi un kvalitatīvo analīzi, izmantojot Latvijas jaunuzņēmumu dibinātāju padziļinātās intervijas ar identiskiem, atvērtiem jautājumiem. Autors intervēja tikai veiksmīgākos startup dibinātājus Latvijā. Tika intervēti 14 dibinātāji, kuri ir izveidojuši jaunuzņēmumus ar vidējiem ieņēmumiem 35,5 miljoni eiro un vidējo vecumu 6 gadi, un 3 intervēja investorus, kas ir ieguldījuši augsta…
Abreviatūras rakstos par jauniem uzņēmumiem
2017
Uzņēmējdarbības vide pieprasa precīzu un skaidru komunikāciju, tādēļ iniciālismi un akronīmi, kā saīsinājumu veidi, saīsina garās frāzes. Šī pētnieciskā darba mērķis bija izpētīt saīsinājumu izmantošanu rakstos par jaunajiem uzņēmumiem. Turklāt pētījumā tika noteikti saīsinājumu veidi, kas parādās rakstos par jaunajiem uzņēmumiem, kā arī to izmantošanas iemesli. Lai sasniegtu mērķi un atbildētu uz pētnieciskā darba jautājumiem, tika izmantota kvantitatīvā un kvalitatīvā pētnieciskā metode. Pētījuma rezultāti parādīja, ka rakstos par jaunajiem uzņēmumiem tiek izmantoti gan iniciālismi, gan akronīmi. Turklāt tika konstatēts, ka rakstos par jaunajiem uzņēmumiem saīsinājumi tiek izmantoti garo …
Amidst Uncertainty–or Not? : Decision-Making in Early-Stage Software Startups
2019
It is commonly claimed that the initial stages of any startup business are dominated by continuous, extended uncertainty, in an environment that has even been described as chaotic. Consequently, decisions are made in uncertain circumstances, so making the right decision is crucial to successful business. However, little currently exists in the way of empirical studies into this supposed uncertainty. In this paper, we study decision-making in early-stage software startups by means of a single, in-depth case study. Based on our data, we argue that software startups do not work in a chaotic environment, nor are they characterized by unique uncertainty unlike that experienced by other firms. pe…
Am I an Entrepreneur? Entrepreneurial Self-Identity as an Antecedent of Entrepreneurial Intention
2020
Although many studies have shown that entrepreneurial intention can be explained according to a theory of planned behavior, some scholars have provided interesting insights into the role of job self-identity perception—in particularly the ones related to entrepreneurship—as significant precursor of entrepreneurial intention. A questionnaire has been administered to graduates and students of an Italian university (N = 153). A hierarchical regression analysis controlling for demographic variables has been performed in order to test the research hypotheses. The findings of this study have been discussed, with particular attention paid to the unexpected, weak, or non-significant effects of perc…