Download or read book Entrepreneurial Ecosystems As Amplifiers of The Lean Startup Philosophy Management Control Practices In Earliest Stage Startups written by Sebastian D. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurial ecosystems play a key role in the development of startups by not only providing support - such as flexible office space and access to skilled employees, mentors and investors - but moreover by promoting concrete ideals about 'good' entrepreneurship. In our empirical analysis of management control systems (MCSs) in earliest-stage startups, we witness a strong influence of such ideals - above all the Lean Startup philosophy - on the MCSs analyzed. Building on cross-sectional field study data resulting from a comprehensive field-immersion strategy and 50 interviews with key actors in an entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as with founder-managers of startups, we consider the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a collective meso-level community that mediates between macro-level institutional pressures and micro-level practices of startups. We show how this community - through a variety of what we term amplifying mechanisms - not only actively deinstitutionalizes a legacy entrepreneurial philosophy epitomized by the business plan concept but propagates the Lean Startup philosophy so that this alternative has become the dominant institutional philosophy in the studied ecosystem and its startups. Due to the amplifying mechanisms exerted by the meso-level, startups use MCSs that play a crucial role in the rapid experimentation and learning process towards finding a scalable business model that is characteristic of the Lean Startup philosophy. We theorize this role of MCSs through the lenses of interactive and enabling control systems and make these concepts amenable to multi-level entrepreneurial settings.

Download or read book The Lean Entrepreneur written by Brant Cooper and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a step-by-step approach to best practices, and giving readers a business model analysis guide, the book is rich in cases studies, illustrative graphics, worksheets, and exercises for a truly immersive guide to starting or improving a company. Invaluable reading for all readers in all businesses, the book teaches entrepreneurs how to approach risk head-on and test market ideas immediately, foster stronger customer relations, test different business model risks, and create a customer funnel based on buyers' process in order to eliminate unnecessary time and effort.A lean entrepreneur has already bought into lean startup, customer development, design thinking, and other iterative, customer-centric methods of product development. The lean entrepreneur wants to know how to apply these to their business. In other words: how to get started tomorrow. This book shows the way.

Download or read book The Startup Way written by Eric Ries and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Business Book Awards 'Thought Leader' category ----- The Startup Way reveals how organisations of all sizes can harness startup techniques to drive growth. With his million-copy bestseller The Lean Startup, Eric Ries launched a global movement. Concepts like minimal viable product, A/B testing and 'pivoting' changed the language of business. Now he turns his attention to companies of all sizes - and shows how the startup ethos can breathe new life into even the largest and most bureaucratic organisation. In this groundbreaking new book, he draws on inside stories of transformations at multinationals like General Electric and Toyota, titans like Amazon and Facebook, and tech upstarts like Airbnb and Twilio. He lays out a new framework for entrepreneurial management: a comprehensive approach that kick starts innovation and delivers sustained growth, even in highly uncertain environments. The Startup Way is an essential read for leaders, managers and entrepreneurs at any level. It's a revolutionary approach to incubating great ideas, turning all teams into startups, and inspiring everyone to think like an entrepreneur.

Download or read book Spinning into Control written by Amiel Kornel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could everything we’ve learned about entrepreneurship simply be wrong? There is no shortage of how-to books with ‘manual’ in the title, and articles promising ‘The 7 [or 6 or 10] key traits of successful entrepreneurs’, which breed an infectious optimism all too often quashed as startups fail. Amiel Kornel puts a persuasive case for an alternative theory that while grounded in the natural way great entrepreneurs operate resists reduction to a simple recipe or method. Kornel, who has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, believes that disciplined planning, lean management, and commitment are no guarantee of success. The limited resources of a startup demand knowing when and how to explore and ‘tinker’, artfully recombining ideas, designs, media, software, and materials on hand. True venture craftsmen harness and redirect the energy of startups that might otherwise spin dangerously out of control towards failure. The stories of entrepreneurs like Sun Basket’s Adam Zbar, Minecraft’s Markus Persson, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, and Metacode Technologies’ Joel Schatz are woven throughout the book, along with examples from beyond business, including legendary ocean-racing sailor Isabelle Autissier and acclaimed urban designer Gerard Penot. Kornel shows how meeting challenges in a broad variety of fields rife with uncertainty often relies on the ability to loosen the coupling between command and control, a prerequisite of skillful improvisation.

Download or read book Lean startup written by Eric Ries and published by HVG Kiadó Zrt. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Ries szerint a startup olyan vállalkozás, amelynek célja új termék vagy szolgáltatás létrehozása szélsőségesen bizonytalan feltételek között. Ez ugyanúgy igaz a garázsában szerencsét próbáló egyéni vállalkozóra, mint a Fortune 500-as egyik vállalatának tárgyalótermében összegyűlő rutinos szakemberekre. Hiszen ugyanaz a küldetésük: át kell hatolniuk a bizonytalanság ködén, hogy megtalálják a fenntartható vállalkozáshoz vezető sikeres utat. A lean gyártás tapasztalataira építve a Lean Startup forradalmian új menedzsmentmódszert kínál. Arra biztatja az innovatív vállalkozókat – cégmérettől függetlenül –, hogy ne dőljenek be a hiúsági mutatóknak, inkább a tényleges előrehaladást mérjék, és mielőbb derítsék ki, mit is akarnak valójában az ügyfelek. Üzleti elképzeléseiket pedig folyamatosan teszteljék, és igazítsák a körülményekhez, mielőtt még túl késő lenne.

Download or read book The Lean Startup written by Eric Ries and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

Download or read book Research Handbook on Start Up Incubation Ecosystems written by Adam Novotny and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and comprehensive Handbook explores the concept of start-up incubation ecosystems, investigating the various factors that interact to provide a nurturing environment suitable for the successful development of start-ups and illustrating the critical part this plays within entrepreneurial ecosystems. Chapters include literature reviews, theoretical studies, and empirical research featuring both quantitative and qualitative methods, using data from a range of countries analyzed by an international team of authors.

Download or read book Facilitating Opportunity Development Increasing Understanding of the Lean Startup Approach in Early Stage High Tech Entrepreneurship written by Christian Kählig and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Company formation, Business Plans, grade: 1.0, Technical University of Munich, course: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Development, language: English, abstract: The research objective of this study was to explore how the startup idea development progress was experienced by entrepreneurs and how the Lean Startup Approach (LSA) affected that progress in early stage high-tech entrepreneurship. The Lean Startup movement has gained a lot of traction not only in the Silicon Valley area, but also to some extent in Europe. However, with increasing popularity, criticism starts to get formulated as well. Due to the limited coverage of the LSA, its principles and related management practices in academic literature, it remains difficult to critically assess the validity and effectiveness of the proposed concept. With this study, light is shed on the LS phenomenon by interviewing representative high-tech entrepreneurs and leading proponents of the LS principles and practices. In order to better understand LS principles at work with an emphasis on experienced startup idea development progress, semi-structure interviews with seven Lean Startup Machine (LSM) event participants as well as one mentoring subject matter expert were conducted. The interviewed practitioners were purposely selected from the most and least performing teams according to the appraisal of the LSM event judges. The main reason for choosing the LSM event is the fact that the LSM projects, while somewhat artificial, do provide condensed versions of real life startups, which provides a high information to effort ratio to me as a researcher. Furthermore, a LSA survey tailored to the opportunity development process and a post-LSM-event survey were conducted. The purpose of the multiple mini-cases study (which treated each team working on an entrepreneurial idea as a mini-case) was to explore the opportunity development progress and the role of LS principles and practices from the perspective of consumer Internet high-tech entrepreneurs and LS proponents (mentors) in a highly time-constrained real world LS practitioner event in the USA. Learning about how participants of the event perceived and experienced development progress and the LSA provided insights into the relevance of the LS methodology as a means to accelerate the development progress of an early stage startup idea towards a viable opportunity.

Download or read book Role and Impact of Digital Accelerators and Virtual Support Programs on Early Stage Startups written by Marco Lamas and published by Business Science Reference. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role and Impact of Digital Accelerators and Virtual Support Programs on Early-Stage Startups is a game-changing scholarly resource for entrepreneurs and policymakers alike. Edited by the esteemed Marco Lamas and Carlos Oliveira from ISLA-IPGT in Portugal, and Viacheslav Baranovskiy from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, this book provides practical solutions for the problems faced by early-stage startups. In today's world, digital accelerators and virtual support programs have become increasingly prevalent, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely book explores their role and impact, offering essential insights into the best practices and methods for success. The book's focus on virtual accelerator programs, a relatively recent phenomenon, makes it a must-read for anyone interested in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This book is more than an academic resource; it is an essential tool for anyone looking to accelerate the growth and success of their startup. With its emphasis on best practices and methods to accelerate early-stage startups, including internationalization, interculturality, entrepreneurial courses, business model innovation, networking, funding, and entrepreneurial ecosystems, this book provides practical solutions to the challenges faced by entrepreneurs. It is a must-have resource for scholars, researchers, educators, policymakers, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and anyone interested in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Don't miss out on the opportunity to transform your startup and take it to the next level with Role and Impact of Digital Accelerators and Virtual Support Programs on Early-Stage Startups .

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Ecosystems written by Ben Spigel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems: what they are, why they matter, and to whom they matter. Ben Spigel explores this popular new theory of economic development, locating the intellectual roots of ecosystems, explaining the practices and processes that allow ecosystems to support the creation and growth of innovative entrepreneurial firms.

Download or read book Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance written by Mihail C. Roco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge In the early decades of the 21st century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science. With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, converging in human abilities, societal technologies could achieve a tremendous improvement outcomes, the nation's productivity, and the quality of life. This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term. The phrase "convergent technologies" refers to the synergistic combination of four major "NBIC" (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering; (c) information technology, including advanced computing and communications; (d) cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience. Timely and Broad Opportunity. Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale.

Download or read book The Lifestyle Investor The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing for Passive Income and Financial Freedom written by Justin Donald and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to make more money, that too with minimum effort and without too much hassle. Ever wondered what life would be like if we had a simple, proven system to create cash flow and generate real wealth with little risk or complexity? This book helps you: • Manage your finances better, by directing you to a well-structured plan • Reduce investment-related risks • Create a sturdy cash flow • Streamline passive cash flow to multiply your wealth Get set to live life on your own terms, and fulfil all that you aimed to achieve. "Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing." – Entrepreneur Magazine

Download or read book Rising Above the Gathering Storm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and pre-eminence in these areas. This congressionally requested report by a pre-eminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy: 1) Increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12 mathematics and science education; 2) Sustain and strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research; 3) Develop, recruit, and retain top students, scientists, and engineers from both the U.S. and abroad; and 4) Ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world for innovation. Some actions will involve changing existing laws, while others will require financial support that would come from reallocating existing budgets or increasing them. Rising Above the Gathering Storm will be of great interest to federal and state government agencies, educators and schools, public decision makers, research sponsors, regulatory analysts, and scholars.

Download or read book World Intellectual Property Report written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2015 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WIPO's latest World Intellectual Property Report (WIPR) explores the role of IP at the nexus of innovation and economic growth, focusing on the impact of breakthrough innovations.

Download or read book The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies Perspectives on the U S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency written by William Boone Bonvillian and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have done a masterful job of charting the important story of DARPA, one of the key catalysts of technological innovation in US recent history. By plotting the development, achievements and structure of the leading world agency of this kind, this book stimulates new thinking in the field of technological innovation with bearing on how to respond to climate change, pandemics, cyber security and other global problems of our time. The DARPA Model provides a useful guide for governmental agency and policy leaders, and for anybody interested in the role of governments in technological innovation. —Dr. Kent Hughes, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This volume contains a remarkable collection of extremely insightful articles on the world’s most successful advanced technology agency. Drafted by the leading US experts on DARPA, it provides a variety of perspectives that in turn benefit from being presented together in a comprehensive volume. It reviews DARPA’s unique role in the U.S. innovation system, as well as the challenges DARPA and its clones face today. As the American model is being considered for adoption by a number of countries worldwide, this book makes a welcome and timely contribution to the policy dialogue on the role played by governments in stimulating technological innovation. — Prof. Charles Wessner, Georgetown University The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet. Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to apply the ‘DARPA model’ to help develop valuable new technologies. But how and why has DARPA succeeded? Which features of its operation and environment contribute to this success? And what lessons does its experience offer for other U.S. agencies and other governments that want to develop and demonstrate their own ‘transformative technologies’? This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency’s founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current attempts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.

Download or read book Business Dynamics Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD ROM written by John Sterman and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2000-02-23 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.

Download or read book Managing Nano Bio Info Cogno Innovations written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and science-driven business revolution. The already emerging reality of convergence is to be found in genomics, robotics, bio-information and artificial intelligence applications, such as: • Self-assembled, self-cleaning and self-healing manufactured materials and textiles, and much stronger, lighter and more customizable structural materials, • Miniature sensors allowing unobtrusive real-time health monitoring and dramatically improved diagnosis; with greatly enhanced real time information to vehicles and drivers on the way, • New generations of supercomputers and efficient energy generators based on biological processes, • Greatly enhanced drug delivery from unprecedented control over fundamental structural properties and biocompatibility of materials. These advances are here already, or in development. And Japan, other Asian nations and Western European countries are investing heavily and moving aggressively to develop and apply NBIC technologies. Notwithstanding the passage of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, significant further funding and action by both government and private industry will be critical to maintaining US scientific and industry leadership.