The Impact of Start-up Business Ecosystem and Lifecycle on Start-up Creation Process – Case Study of Indonesian Software Technology Start-up
Keywords:
start-up business, start-up ecosystem, start-up lifecycle, start-up creationAbstract
Developing new start-ups with higher maturity presents a higher degree of utilization of the practices, methods, and tools to perform in an increase of business start-ups. The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze how the characteristic start-up ecosystem in every lifecycle. This research applies a qualitative study based on explanatory multiple-case which data are collected during an in-depth case study of understanding the start-up ecosystem and lifecycle in an Indonesian software technology start-up, including interviews and participant observations with start-up founders. This study contributes to identifying and exploring start-up businesses companies through conceptual understanding eight of the critical start-up ecosystem and start-up lifecycle processes which are rarely found by other researchers. The result of this study provides further insight about characterize of start-up businesses from multiplecase case study start-ups. This study found that each stage of the start-up lifecycle had a different focus on enhancing the ecosystem. There may be a needed next step to identify, explore and assess more components in a larger group of innovative technology start-up businesses in developing a new start-up. This paper also suggests some implications, both practical and theoretical, that will be able in detail to use in future research.
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