2 research outputs found
Towards understanding startup product development as effectual entrepreneurial behaviors
Software startups face with multiple technical and business challenges, which
could make the startup journey longer, or even become a failure. Little is
known about entrepreneurial decision making as a direct force to startup
development outcome. In this study, we attempted to apply a behaviour theory of
entrepreneurial firms to understand the root-cause of some software startup s
challenges. Six common challenges related to prototyping and product
development in twenty software startups were identified. We found the behaviour
theory as a useful theoretical lens to explain the technical challenges.
Software startups search for local optimal solutions, emphasise on short-run
feedback rather than long-run strategies, which results in vague prototype
planning, paradox of demonstration and evolving throw-away prototypes. The
finding implies that effectual entrepreneurial processes might require a more
suitable product development approach than the current state-of-practice.Comment: This is the author's version of the work. Copyright owner's version
can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69191-6_15, 8th ICSOB
2017, Essen, German
The effect of open-source software technologies in health-tech startups
Abstract. The research investigates how open-source technology improves product efficiency and identifies the challenges encountered by startups when introducing open-source software technologies in the startups. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare startups based in Oulu. Thematic data analysis was performed to analyse the collected data and identified common themes and sub-themes to the research objective