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What is Start-Up

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Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation in Family Businesses and SMEs
an organization, formally established or not, that aims to launch a new product or service proposal. The main aim of this entity is to test hypotheses, mainly of value to end customer and growth potential.
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Key Challenges for Greek IT Start Ups: An Analysis of Founder Perceptions
Theocharis Stylianos Spyropoulos (Department of International Business, Perrotis College, Greece)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3648-3.ch003
Abstract
The study examines the IT Greek start-up ecosystem, analyzing the founders' views, strategy, and current perception regarding their ICT start-ups. The study examines the views and perceptions of 143 founders of Greek IT start ups who participated in exhibitions as start-up companies between September 2018 and May 2019, and had completed at least one accelerator program.
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Social Skepticism and Its Effect on Shared Economy
A start-up is a company or project begun by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable economic model.
Published in Chapter: Social Skepticism and Its Effect on Shared Economy; From: Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
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Effect of Venture Capital on the Growth of Information and Communication Technology University Spin-Offs: Venture Capital Effect on the Growth of ICT-USOs
A new and independent company or project initiated by an entrepreneur to develop a scalable business model.
Published in Chapter: Effect of Venture Capital on the Growth of Information and Communication Technology University Spin-Offs: Venture Capital Effect on the Growth of ICT-USOs; From: Emerging Tools and Strategies for Financial Management
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New Approach to Detect and Select Technology-Based Firms: Value Creation Factors in a Follower Technology Country
A start-up is a new company created by entrepreneurs that may come from a university background but is not based on the knowledge generated at the university or public research organisation (thus excluding spin-offs). They can also be referred to as TBF modes.
Published in Chapter: New Approach to Detect and Select Technology-Based Firms: Value Creation Factors in a Follower Technology Country; From: Global Campaigning Initiatives for Socio-Economic Development
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Entrepreneurship and Technopreneurship in Era 4.0: GO-JEK Extended to Decacorn
A company or project initiated by an entrepreneur to seek, effectively develop, and validate a scalable business model.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurship and Technopreneurship in Era 4.0: GO-JEK Extended to Decacorn; From: Handbook of Research on Innovation and Development of E-Commerce and E-Business in ASEAN
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Employability, E-Entrepreneurship, and Economic Recovery
A new business or venture that has recently begun to operate in the market place.
Published in Chapter: Employability, E-Entrepreneurship, and Economic Recovery; From: Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
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Academic Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer Networks: Translation Process and Boundary Organizations
A young innovative firm that was born without a formal linkage to other existing companies or organizations. They are normally small businesses but with strong interest to the traditional industries by creating and developing new concepts and ideas.
Published in Chapter: Academic Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer Networks: Translation Process and Boundary Organizations; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development
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A Discourse on Entrepreneurial Discontinuance, Failure Rates, and Failed Business Models
A startup is a firm that is in its early phases of operation that are created by one or more entrepreneurs who desire to create a product or service that they feel will be in demand. These businesses typically begin with high costs and low income, and requires a steady injection of cash.
Published in Chapter: A Discourse on Entrepreneurial Discontinuance, Failure Rates, and Failed Business Models; From: Handbook of Research on Business Model Innovation Through Disruption and Digitalization
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Neuromarketing Insights for Start-Up Companies
Newly launched companies that seek survival and development.
Published in Chapter: Neuromarketing Insights for Start-Up Companies; From: Analyzing the Strategic Role of Neuromarketing and Consumer Neuroscience
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Which Are the Appropriate Skills Needed for the Entrepreneurial Success of Startups in the Era of Digitalization?
a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable, sustainable, and scalable business model, by offering products/services, or innovative processes into markets with extreme uncertainty, but generating high added value and rates of innovation.
Published in Chapter: Which Are the Appropriate Skills Needed for the Entrepreneurial Success of Startups in the Era of Digitalization?; From: Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies for Start-Ups and Small Business
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Service Logic Business Model Canvas for Lean Development of SMEs and Start-Ups
Is a company refers to and early stage in the life cycle of an enterprise where the entrepreneur moves from the idea stage to securing financing, laying down the basis structure of the business, and initiating operations or trading (Businessdictionary. Retrieved October 20, 2014 from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/startup.html#ixzz3Gi11ohGS AU79: Anchored Object 1 ).
Published in Chapter: Service Logic Business Model Canvas for Lean Development of SMEs and Start-Ups; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Knowledge-Based Global Economy
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Chapter 1
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Lisbon as a Smart Start-Up City
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Entrepreneurial Mission of an Academic Creative Incubator: The Creative Industries Pole of Science and Technology Park of Porto's University
These are small, newly created companies which, as a rule, have a strong technological component. They are in process of development and insertion in the market, seeking to do so through an innovative business model.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurial Mission of an Academic Creative Incubator: The Creative Industries Pole of Science and Technology Park of Porto's University; From: Smart Specialization Strategies and the Role of Entrepreneurial Universities
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Climate Change and the Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
A new model of SMEs that concern with taking a business on a digital platform.
Published in Chapter: Climate Change and the Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; From: Handbook of Research on Climate Change and the Sustainable Financial Sector
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