Startup ecosystem effect on minimum viable product development in software startups

Tripathi, Nirnaya; Oivo, Markku; Liukkunen, Kari; Markkula, Jouni

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2019.06.008

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“…The results of our study confirm the importance of both the academic and business environment to startups and to the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem, an aspect widely debated in the specialized literature [10,35,56]. On the basis of the opinions of the interviewees, the answers to the research questions were obtained.…”

Section: Conclusion and Proposalssupporting

confidence: 79%

“…The main goal of a startup city is to develop the business environment of a region with future beneficial effects on the local market, such as business development, new jobs for residents, and new established startups. Further on, such an evolution can contribute on a larger scale to the national economic development [35]. However, in order to reach this goal, proper management of the business ecosystem should be practiced by involving the actors in a continuous negotiation process meant to encourage the diversity of ideas that could lead to the best decisions [36].…”

Section: Key Features Of Startup Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other factors like the business plan, startup incubators, business location, and surrounding business community can stimulate startups' development [40]. In this respect, the main actors of a startup city can assist the new companies in finding the best ideas of products that can be addressed to viable market segments [35].…”

Section: Key Features Of Startup Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Growth Approaches: Quadruple Helix Approach for Turning Brașov into a Startup City

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The aims of this study are to identify large companies’ role in stimulating local entrepreneurship, and higher education institutions’ contribution of fostering entrepreneurial activity in order to achieve an innovative ecosystem and turning Brasov into a startup city. To address the research questions, exploratory research was conducted among 18 representatives of companies and public institutions active in Brasov city, Romania. The findings confirm that large companies engage startups by collaborative models being also available to outsource a series of activities to entrust the startups with. These collaborations bring many opportunities to startups to scale up faster by using large companies’ resources and the routes to the markets on which they operate. Furthermore, this research reveals the need for a better synergy between education, research, and practice and, consequently, an improvement of the academic curriculum. It also exemplifies the need for joined theory and practice to influence policymakers in developing policies to create a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. The empirical results have implications for both the entrepreneurship literature and entrepreneurship policies.

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“…For instance, the failure rates of the startups are due to requirement related issues [44][45][46][47] and the product development issues [48]. The state of research in the domain of the requirement engineering in the startup context is still in early stages.…”

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Freelancers in the Software Development Process: A Systematic Mapping Study

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[Context] Freelancers could catalyze the software development process by providing their niche skills to generate high quality outputs. They could help companies (including startups) to foster innovations by suggesting creative ideas and providing their expertise in implementing them (for instance, designing solutions, coding solutions etc.). Freelancers could effectively and efficiently work as a virtual member of the software development team. The company must make informed decisions about which task to allot to the freelancer, which freelancer to select, pricing the task, and evaluating the submitted work. On the other hand, the freelancer should make an informed decision about evaluating the monetary value of the task to be charged, trusting the requester, analyzing the skills requirement of the task (finding matches between skill requirement and skills processed), selecting the best task, and maintaining the highest level of reputation. However, the literature does not provide freelancers and the companies the guidelines that support their decision making. However, if freelancers are selected carefully for the most suitable task, the companies will benefit a lot in terms of improved software development metrics. [Objectives] The objective of this paper is to provide the research community the research trends in freelancer-supported software development. This helps to understand that which software development areas have higher concentrations of research efforts, which area has the support of empirical evidence to support management decision makings, and which area requires the research attention. [Method] The systematic study is conducted by planning the mapping protocol, executing the protocol, and reporting the findings using various visualization tools like bar charts and pie charts. The search process was planned to be executed using set of inclusion and exclusion conditions on four bibliographic databases (IEEExplore, Springerlink, Sciencedirect, and ACM digital library). The relevant papers are selected by applying inclusion and exclusion conditions. The google citations of the relevant papers are subject to the inclusion and exclusion conditions again to include the more relevant papers. Finally, the systematic schema was created and populated after analyzing the studies abstracts. [Results] The results indicate the following (a) The research focus is on generic software development (78%) rather on individual life cycle activities. (b) The number of empirical studies is limited (25%). (c) A number of studies proposing solutions and evaluating on live cases in industrial settings are missing from the literature. This is in comparison to the validation approaches (72%) i.e., solutions tested in laboratory settings. (d) At present, the literature has limited ability to provide the software companies (including startups) with the guidelines (in the form of opinions and experience reports) for involving freelancers in the software development process. (e) The reported challenges include Collaboration and Coordination (33%), Developer Recommendation (or selection) (19%), Team Formulation (14%), Task Recommendation (allocation) (14%), Task Decomposition (11%), Privacy and Security (Confidentiality) (11%), Budget Estimation (8%), Recognition (8%), Trust Issues (8%), Market Dynamism (6%), Intellectual Property Issues (6%), Participation of Crowd Worker (6%), and Capacity Utilization (3%). These challenges are highly interactive, and each challenge impacts all other challenges. (e) Recent focus of the researchers (total 7 studies in 2019) is on generic software development handling the collaboration and coordination (3 studies out of 7), Developer recommendation (2 studies out of 7), and task recommendation (2 studies out of 7). [Conclusion] The freelancer-driven software engineering research area has got the attraction of the researchers, but it will take a long time to gain maturity. This puts an urgent call for more empirical studies and evaluation-based solution research that could help companies (including startups) to foster innovations. Further, the research focus should be well distributed among the various development phases to address the unique challenges associated with individual activities. The accurate management of the freelancer in the software development could help companies and startups to foster innovations and remain competitive in the marketplace.

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“…La literatura muestra que, en la última década, el estudio sobre ecosistemas de emprendimiento se ha centrado en identificar los aspectos relevantes para su éxito y los efectos en la actividad emprendedora (Nicotra et al, 2018), pues los elementos de un ecosistema "nutren" a una startup (Tripathi, Seppänen, Boominathan, Oivo, & Liukkunen, 2019). Sin embargo, dada la variedad aspectos identificados, investigadores y académicos han tratando de categorizarlos en elementos (Aulet, 2008;Fetters, Greene, & Rice, 2010;Isenberg, 2010;Tripathi, Oivo, Liukkunen, & Markkula, 2019), dimensiones (Gnyawali & Fogel, 1994), componentes (Isenberg, 2011;Mack & Mayer, 2016;Neck, Mayer, Cohen, & Corbett, 2004;Qian, 2018), factores Neck et al, 2004;Spigel, 2015;Stam & Spigel, 2016;Vogel, 2013), actores (Alvedalen & Boschma, 2017;Cohen, 2006;Isenberg, 2011;Isenberg & Onyemah, 2016;Mason & Brown, 2014;Neck et al, 2004;Roberts et al, 2017;Stam & Spigel, 2016;Vogel, 2013), niveles (Theodoraki & Messeghem, 2017), entre otros, sin llegar a un consenso que permita definir un marco teórico para el estudio de los ecosistemas de emprendimiento. Además, mientras algunos autores se centran en la importancia de crear ecosistemas de emprendimiento para fomentar el surgimiento de nuevas iniciativas empresariales; otros enfatizan en el rol que los actores de estos ecosistemas tienen para impulsar la competitividad de las startups (Auerswald et al, 2015;Clarysse et al, 2014;Spigel & Harrison, 2018).…”

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Componentes del Ecosistema de Emprendimiento de Lima que Inciden en Crecimiento y Desarrollo de Startups

Weinberger-Villarán

2019

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Los ecosistemas de emprendimiento impulsan la competitividad de las startups y estas, a su vez, contribuyen al progreso y bienestar socio-económico. Por ello, el interés en estudiar los componentes del ecosistema de emprendimiento de Lima que inciden en el crecimiento y desarrollo de startups. En febrero 2017, una muestra de 137 startups vinculadas a Innóvate Perú, respondieron un cuestionario. Posteriormente se efectuó un análisis factorial exploratorio-con método ACP-un análisis de clústeres, un ANOVA unidireccional y tablas cruzadas. Se identificaron dos componentes y tres clústeres, caracterizados por la antigüedad y el sector productivo de la startup. Los hallazgos sugieren que la incidencia de los componentes, depende de la fase del proceso de emprendimiento en que se encuentre la startup. Palabras clave: Componentes de ecosistemas de emprendimiento; crecimiento y desarrollo de startups; caracterización de startups; Lima Components of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Lima that Affect the Growth and Development of Startups Abstract: Entrepreneurship ecosystems boost the competitiveness of startups and these, in turn, contribute to socioeconomic progress and wellbeing. Therefore, the interest in studying the components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Lima that affect the growth and development of startups. In February 2017, a sample of 137 startups linked to Innóvate Peru, answered a questionnaire. Subsequently, an exploratory factor analysis was performed-using the PCA method-, a cluster analysis, a unidirectional ANOVA and cross tables. Two components and three clusters were identified, characterized by the age and the productive sector of the startup. The findings suggest that the incidence of the components depends on the stage of the entrepreneurship process in which the startup is going through.

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Startup ecosystem effect on minimum viable product development in software startups

Cited by 55 publications

References 54 publications

Sustainable Growth Approaches: Quadruple Helix Approach for Turning Brașov into a Startup City

Sustainable Growth Approaches: Quadruple Helix Approach for Turning Brașov into a Startup City

Freelancers in the Software Development Process: A Systematic Mapping Study

Componentes del Ecosistema de Emprendimiento de Lima que Inciden en Crecimiento y Desarrollo de Startups

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