Key challenges in early-stage software startups

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-63

  Giardino, Carmine ^a   Bajwa, Sohaib Shahid ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Challenges; Customer value; Early stage; Software startups; Validated learning

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CHALLENGES; CUSTOMER VALUES; CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SURVEYS; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; RESEARCH APPROACH; TECHNOLOGY UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATED LEARNING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84942761374     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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