Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing markets under severe lack of resources. Therefore, software startups present a unique combination of characteristics which pose several challenges to software development activi...

The recent phenomenon of corporate accelerators is an excellent opportunity for incumbent companies to participate in promising innovations from startups all over the globe. Incumbent companies introduce structured accelerator programs for cohorts of startups, which in turn benefit from resources, mentoring and networks. The underlying research analyzes the growing interdisciplinary scientific ...

The recent few years has seen a tremendous explosion in mobile phone ownership all over the world 1 , resulting in a boom in the wireless industry. However, as the effects of the boom taper, the average revenue per user (ARPU) from voice traffic is projected to decrease over the next few years. As a result, increasing revenues from data traffic over mobile devices is touted as the next " holy g...

This paper explores the strategic problems of platform startups on the Internet: their identification and discovery of linkages between them form its contribution to the platform literature. The author argues that the chicken-and-egg problem cannot be solved solely with pricing in the online context – in fact, setting the price zero will result in a monetization dilemma, whereas drawing users f...

Nowadays, fundraising is one of the most important issues for both Fintech investors and startups. The pattern of fundraising in terms of “number and type of rounds and stages needed” are important. The diverse features and factors that could stem from Fintech business models which can influence success are of the key issues in shaping these patterns. This study applied the top 100 KPMG Fintech...

Who can spot the next Google, Facebook, or Twitter? Who can discover the next billion-dollar startups? Measuring investor success is a challenging task, as investment strategies can vary widely. We propose InvestorRank, a novel method for identifying successful investors by analyzing how an investor’s collaboration network change over time. InvestorRank captures the intuition that a successful ...

This paper proposes a new theory of business cycles based on the idea that financial uncertainty shocks change the nature of innovation. When investors become more risk tolerant, they fund riskier startups with greater growth potential. As these ambitious startups grow, the initial shock propagates and generates a boom in output and employment. I develop a heterogeneous firm industry model of t...

O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a relação do modelo de atuação da startup e seu ciclo vida com importância dada aos gestores as medidas desempenho operacional.Para tanto, analisado que os empresários atribuem determinadas em diferentes modelos vida. A metodologia utilizada survey, foram enviados questionários para 113 obtidas 38 respostas, totalizando 35% taxa retorno. amostra analisada li...