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Nguyen, Minh Ha. "Survival and growth of new start-up firms in Vietnam." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted access until November 2, 2011, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=53340.
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Ma, Victor Kee Kin. "Success factors for new business start-up in Hong Kong: a study of the external networks of small business start-up." Curtin University of Technology, Graduate School of Business, Curtin Business School, 2009. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=129026.
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Most small new firms face problems in surviving the gestation process and achieving a viable performance thereafter because of the very fact of their smallness and newness. Due to a lack of internal resources, entrepreneurs of small new firms find it necessary to seek resources from outside the firm through their external social network. The theory of social capital that prescribes valuable resources are embedded in social relations is, thus, particularly relevant to the small business start-up situation. The embedded resources within an external network are hypothesized to have a positive impact on the business performance of these new firms. The main objective of the present study is to empirically investigate the impact of external networks, and in particular the initial social network of entrepreneurs, to the success of small firm start-up in Hong Kong. The second objective is to determine whether there is any interaction effect of the entrepreneur’s networking capability with the external network structure on the start-up success of small Hong Kong firms.To carry out the research, this study offers a conceptual model linking initial network start-up success to initial network structure of start-up, and including an interaction effect from the entrepreneur’s networking capability. The study operationalizes social capital in four types of network constructs: network size, trustworthiness, network support and network diversity. A series of hypotheses relating to these four dimensions asserting external network determinants of the start-up success of small firms is posited. Other hypotheses which assert the interaction effect between an entrepreneur’s networking capability and the initial network structure on the success of small firm start-up, are also posited. A field survey, administered to 1,000 small Hong Kong firms of various industries, is used to gather the data. The questionnaire survey was developed in two languages – Chinese and English – to ensure a good level of understanding in the bilingual business environment of Hong Kong. Of the 1,000 questionnaires dispatched, a final sample of 89 small firms was used to empirically test the hypotheses using multiple regression analysis and multiple hierarchical regression analysis. Control variables such as entrepreneurs’ experiences and education prior to the firm start-up are included.
Empirical results indicate that the verification of social capital theory’s prescription for start-up success cannot be supported unequivocally. The results suggest that some initial network conditions such as initial size of strong tie network, network support and network diversity are positively associated with some measures of start-up success, but trustworthiness of network ties and the size of weak tie network do not figure among them. No evidence is found to support that entrepreneurs’ networking capability can positively enhance the effect of the initial network structure on start-up success. Overall, the study raises some questions on the positive linear relationship of certain operationalized constructs such as network size and trustworthiness of social capital with start-up success. Following the findings of this research, future studies may choose to further investigate social capital theory on small start-up success by refining the operationalization of social capital, and verify other interaction effects of entrepreneurs’ networking capabilities.
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Lim, Sirirat Sae. "Manufacturing strategy in U.K. start-up companies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608976.
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Heibel, Martin. "Founder turnover in venture capital backed start-up companies." Weisbaden : Gabler, 2008. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10279681.
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Berka, Michal. "Success factors in the process of new business venturing and growth." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162648.
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This thesis discusses factors of success in the process of new business venturing and growth in current business environment. It employs a sample of 200 entrepreneurial cases documented through interviews which were each broken into over 40 mainly quantitative criteria. Aided by simple statistical tools this result is then analyzed and evaluated, leading to a thorough analysis of each of the aspects discussed and finally culminating in conclusion stating which factors are the most significant. Besides purely academic interest, conclusions of this thesis could be of interest to both actual and prospective entrepreneurs.
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Kaye, Leah, and leahkaye@bigpond com. "Human resource management and the small entrepreneurial start-up : a new reading." Swinburne University of Technology, 2002. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050303.140718.
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This thesis is broadly concerned with the factors that influence and shape the character of human resource management (HRM) within the entrepreneurial start-up enterprise.
Specifically, it investigates the way in which such companies implement and action HRM activities, and evaluates the extent to which it is possible to characterise the activities as entrepreneurial and strategic.
Human resource management is understood in this thesis in its broadest sense � that is, as signifying people management within employment relationship.
Little is known, however, about the development and implementation of human resource management in small and medium size enterprises.
The majority of published research to date focuses on HRM in large, formal organisations, and is inter-organisational, rather than intra-organisational. Welsh and White comment that �Small business is not a little big business� (1981: 18), however, and it cannot be presumed that the two have the same managerial practices. Research into small business does, however, indicate that size, informality of structures and processes, and the personal preferences, values and attitudes of the owner/manager impact significantly on the way in which HR practices are adopted.
Although there is little extant research that focuses on the relationship between HR practice and strategy in small business, it has been suggested by some that they have limited ability to manage strategically due to the informality of their structures and processes. Others however speak of HRM in the small organisation as strategic where there is a discernible link with the strategic goals and objectives to improve business performance and develop organisational cultures that foster innovation and flexibility.
The �entrepreneurial start-up enterprise� is understood in this thesis as a particular type of business; that is, a simple, small, informal enterprise with a founder/owner/manager who is opportunistic, innovative, responsive to the excitement of risk taking, and is interested in fast growth.
In the past, studies of the effectiveness of HRM and HR practices in small companies have benefited from being qualitative in nature. However, methodologies employed in the study of entrepreneurship tend to lack diversity and neglect alternative approaches (Aldrich, 1992). There has also been insufficient effort focused on researching organisation formation activities (Gartner and Starr, 1993).
This thesis employs a qualitative approach that is interpretive, naturalistic, and narrative in style, in an effort to go some way towards redressing the limitations of existing work in the twin fields of HRM and entrepreneurship research. This is a longitudinal case study of two self-styled entrepreneurial start-up enterprises: Consultco and Pilotco. Consultco is an interactive business consultancy with a recruitment practice as part of its service. Pilotco is a publishing and Internet company that was to produce a series of CD-ROM guides to key Internet sites.
A case study methodology was chosen as a sound way to explain, describe, evaluate and explore close-up HRM activities in the natural world of the entrepreneurial start-up. Narrative was chosen as a way of making the respondents stories about the organisational experiences more accessible to both the researcher and the reader, and in this way captures the unfolding story of the founding of a business as it occurs.
The thesis is presented in four parts. The first part explores entrepreneurship, the influence of the entrepreneur on their organisation�s culture, and the concept of entrepreneurial strategy within the growth process of the enterprise. It also covers different views of human resource management and the practice of HR in the context of small business, specifically the entrepreneurial start-ups.
The second part of the thesis is concerned with the theoretical methodologies that underpin the research, and the design of the study.
Part 3 presents the stories of the respondents in their own voice, to create organisational narratives for Consultco and Pilotco. A cross-case analysis follows, which tries to throw light on the process of HRM as it is practiced in the entrepreneurial start-up context. This part concludes with the researcher�s own story within the research process, and how this experience in turn influenced on the process of meaning making.
The final part of the thesis revisits the factors that influence and shape the character of HRM in the entrepreneurial context, and posits an alternative way in which to interpret the meaning of HRM, and its relationship to the opportunistic enterprise.
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Jonsson, Sara. "New insights on financing and business development of start-up firms and SMEs." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Skolan för industriell teknik och management, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11009.
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Kiehl, Sandra J. "A Comparative Study of the Characteristics of High Technology Start-Up Firms." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1247.
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A sample of two hundred and twenty-five high technology start-up firms located nationwide provided a base for the analysis of characteristics of start-up success. The analysis provides insights into management capabilities which may be generalized to a larger population. For comparison purposes, the sample was divided into two groups: (1) those firms which have not received a venture capital infusion from a formal venture capital company and (2) those firms which have received one or more infusions of venture capital. Aspects of organizational climate, top management team approach, marketing strategy and focus, business planning and the intent to go public as a means of addressing future financing needs were examined. Hypothesis testing was accomplished through the employment of ANOVA and Chi-Square. Based upon the results of the testing of each of the hypotheses, the following conclusions are drawn: 1. Based upon those aspects examined, both the funded and unfunded firms embrace practices which strongly manifest those of an organic organization. The strong propensities toward both open communication channels and participatory decision making are indicative of the lack of formal structure present in these organizations. In addition, creativity is strongly supported, as it should be, by the notion that failure is viewed in a positive context as a necessary component of both being creative and making technological advancements. 2. The team approach to management is practiced by both funded and unfunded firms; although the venture capital funded firms have a higher quality top management team when quality is defined by aggregate primary past functional experience. The funded firm has a larger team which, in turn, brings more years of experience, a higher aggregate level of organizational responsibility, and more diversity of functional capability. This diversity provides balance in terms of complementary functional skills. Additional strength is added to the top management team of the funded firms due to a higher percentage of members whose prior experience is directly related to the functional capacity in which they now serve. Similarly, the funded firm is more likely to have management team members whose previous experience was in a firm whose core technology was the same or very similar to that of the start-up. 3. There do not appear to be significant differences between the venture capital funded and unfunded firms regarding the various marketing oriented characteristics. Both groups tend to be market driven with a solutions orientation. 4. The high technology start-up firm which has received venture capital funding is more likely to go public than the unfunded firm. 5. Business planning is practiced by the majority of all high technology start-up firms, although the funded firms do so to a greater extent. Not only do virtually all funded firms prepare business plans, but the plans themselves appear to be more extensive. Additionally; the primary purpose for which the funded firm prepares the plan is for venture capital acquisition. On the other hand, the unfunded firms perform business plan preparation to a lesser extent, but do so because of operating necessity. The results of this study have implications for the nascent entrepreneur in the high technology arena and researchers alike toward the end of providing a more complete understanding of some of the critical components essential to the success of a start-up.
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Najib, Hedayatullah. "Accounting for the business start-up experiences of Afghan refugees in Christchurch, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10336.
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New Zealand is rapidly becoming a strongly multicultural society with nearly one in four of its citizens born overseas (Statistics New Zealand, 2006). Immigrants enter New Zealand under many different classifications, such as skilled migrants, entrepreneurs, investors, and refugees. Finding employment and a means of survival in their new society is an undeniable challenge for most, if not all, of these immigrants and people from refugee backgrounds. Some of them find employment in established Kiwi organisations while others establish their own businesses and become entrepreneurs.
A review of the literature revealed that there has been considerable research on entrepreneurial behaviours of immigrants and refugees in general, but little is known about the experiences of entrepreneurs from refugee backgrounds in New Zealand, specifically Afghan entrepreneurs and how their experiences differ from their counterparts who came to New Zealand from other countries.
This qualitative research project studies Afghans (N=23) from Christchurch who established their own businesses and the sense they have made of their experiences, both as refugees and as business owners. It also briefly compares the major findings with those of their refugee counterparts from other countries (N=6) to see if there are any major differences between the two groups’ start-up experiences in New Zealand.
Participants were selected from those in the Afghan community in Christchurch who are from a refugee background, using a snowballing technique. The comparison group consisted of six refugees from Zimbabwe, Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka.
The findings of this study have been categorised into two parts. The first part discusses the initial experiences of the participants in New Zealand society, how they settled into New Zealand, what strategies they used to integrate into their new society, how they financed their lives in New Zealand, and eventually how they became economically independent. The second part of the findings discusses the motivators behind the participants’ business start-ups, the types of businesses that they established and how these businesses assisted them as a gateway to other business ventures or activities. This section further investigates the challenges the refugees faced during their business start-up stage and the strategies they adopted to address these challenges. The data indicated that, while the Afghan refugees faced many challenges in establishing their own businesses, three were of particular importance to them. These were (1) financial challenges (2) licensing requirements and (3) English language ability for obtaining business licenses. These were different from the comparison group because of the different industries the two groups of business owners chose to start.
This research presents a very important finding. When participants’ experiences were examined to see how they account for personal and business success it was clear it is the social fabric of a collectivist and religious way of life and the associated sense of obligation to support each other that are the most significant factors shaping Afghan refugees’ business start-up behaviour. These factors led them to guide and mentor each other towards economic security and a lifestyle that fitted well with their family and religious obligations and self-identity.
In addition to showing how Christchurch Afghan refugees’ business start-ups were used as a means to meet their social objectives, this research and the model that emerged from it offer unique insights into three key drivers: economic security, lifestyle–enterprise fit, and self-identity. These factors, together with age and family circumstances, shaped the decisions associated with starting businesses in New Zealand to determine the pathway chosen.
The findings of this research are important as New Zealand is opening its doors to more refugees and very little is known about more recent refugee groups like those from Afghanistan. The findings provide a rich and unique contribution to refugee entrepreneurship and enterprise development literature in New Zealand and a model that could be used as a framework for further studies on the subject by those agencies that support refugees and their business start-up ventures as well as government agencies dealing with refugee resettlement and employment.
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Sibanda, Zenzo. "Angel networks as a business start-up financing option in South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002780.
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The following study is about business angels financing small business start-ups. It explores the aspect of starting up an entrepreneurial venture in which the entrepreneur seeks to secure start-up finance from lenders, raising the various issues that are known to characterise this engagement between the entrepreneur and the lender. Using the phenomenological paradigm, the study seeks to determine the awareness of small scale financing by entrepreneurs in South Africa, to determine the most commonly used source of start-up business funding in South Africa, to assess the extent to which business angel financing could be used to finance businesses in South Africa and to determine the factors impacting the use of business angel financing in South Africa. From these objectives, the study will also seek to determine the extent to which business angel networks could facilitate the financing of business start-ups. Small businesses invariably come up in different policy spheres as the main avenues to social and economic construction across national and regional lines. The importance of a successful business start up to a growing economy should not be underestimated. In line with this is the particular factor of gaining access to start up capital, which continues to emerge as a leading contributor to the success or failure of business start ups. Studies continue to verify that the most common challenge faced by most emerging entrepreneurs is start-up capital, either in the lack of this capital, the unfavourable conditions surrounding its availability, the lack of assets to serve as collateral for its use or the ambiguous flow of crucial information between lenders and providers of finance in the funding relationship (Abor and Biekpe, 2006: 69;Hernandez-Trillo, Pagan and Paxton, 2005: 435, ISPESE, 2005: 7, CDE, 2004: 5; Musengi 2003: 11). Roger Sorheim (2005: 179) refers to business angels as private individuals who offer risk capital to unlisted companies that are struggling to obtain start up capital to finance their business ideas. Business angels are further defined as high net-worth bearers of substantial private capital who predominantly invest in the early stage of high risk high potential return business ventures with a positive further growth potential. Business angel finance is typically a ‘once-off’ early stage form of small firm financing compared to the more frequent later stage venture capitalist funding. Studies show that business angels represent an underutilised wealth creation mechanism when it comes to small firm start-ups as most business angels contribute expertise in addition to finance to the start-ups they get involved in. This brings valuable business insight to the commercialisation of a good business idea. The business angel network exposes a range of potentially viable business prospects to willing investors by facilitating the flow of information about entrepreneurs and their businesses, thereby eliminating ambiguity, information asymmetry and transaction costs (Aernoudt and Erikson, 2002: 178; Van Osnabrugge and Robinson, 2000:374; Macht, 2006:1; Ehlrich, De Noble, Moore and Weaver, 1994:70; Sorheim, 2005:179). To achieve a holistic approach to a phenomenon which appears to be relatively new in South African business circles, the study will follow a qualitative approach in which two categories of populations will be used, one of small business operators and the other of business angels in South Africa. In the study, 20 small business operators and five business angels in Grahamstown will be approached using the convenience and snowballing sampling methods respectively. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews will be used as a data collection method and content analysis will be used as a data analysis tool (Collis and Hussey, 2003:156, Driver, Wood, Segal and Herrington, 2001:32, National Small Business Act ). There has been very limited research on business angels in the South African context, therefore the study would significantly contribute in entrepreneurship, government and small business development circles as it brings about attention to what the researcher predicts is an underutilised business start-up financing option.
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Sihvola, O. (Otto). "A literature review on pop-up stores and their potential to start new business ventures." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201712093292.
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Sénécal, Julia, and Ismaila A. Jallow. "Open Innovation Strategies : A new pivot for OEM and Start-up Coopetition." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160740.
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“[A]s much as any other product, the car has shaped not only the global economy but how billions of people live”1,whilethe digital area is nowshapingthe car.Coopetition, a strategy presenting firms with the opportunity to collaborate and compete at the same time,is becoming a prevalent phenomenonamong large OEMs and start-ups in the automotive industry.Respectively, considering that coopetition, in the context of open innovation and new technologies, has been identified as a successful strategy, this thesis will therefore analyse the relationship between OEMs and external start-ups in the context of coopetition and corporate open innovation strategies. Several typesof corporate incubators, accelerators and corporate innovation labs emerged within the last years, howeveran integration of all three of these has not yet been widely explored. Accordingly, while these open innovation streamsare used by large corporationsto get access to the start-upecosystemand increase their innovation capabilities, the relationship between OEMs and external start-ups will further lead to CIIAs (a combined approach of corporate incubators, corporate innovation labs and corporate accelerators),demonstratedin the context of coopetition. This exploratory study therebycontributes to the relationship between external start-ups and OEMsthrough aCIIA approach,answering the two following researchquestions;•What are the main drivers of the OEM and external start-uprelationship?•How do OEMs and external start-ups coopete in the context of corporate open innovation strategies?To dulyanswer these research questions, we choseaqualitative researchmethodcombined with an interpretivist and inductiveapproachas well asempirical findings generated from 6semi-structured interviews. We furthercontributed tothe illustrationof the key aspects of CIIAsas well asthe motives, management and implications behind the relationshipsbetween OEMs and external start-upsbyaconceptual framework. Our analysishence showsthe significanceof the access to complementary resources, the co-creation and co-development of value as well as the systematic implementation of a proof of conceptin the light of thesecoopetitive relationshipsbetween CIIAs and external start-ups.However, consideringthat thisresearch has been based on the German automotive industry only, it will require further research in other contexts, sectors or countries. To conclude, thisthesis contributes tothe management literature ofcoopetition, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. We proposeda finalframeworkto highlightthekey motives, the management and the implications behind thecoopetitive relationshipsbetween OEMsand external start-upsthrough the CIIA platform.This willexpectedly help managers and entrepreneurs develop efficientmanagement techniques as well asfurther recognize and understand the influential dynamicspresent in these relationships
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Upadhyay, Arvind. "Learning Barriers faced by Project Based Organizations during start up in a New Country." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-18395.
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Eriksson, Joel, Niclas Krantz, and Jonas Ivarsson. "The strategic path in a creative start-up process : Action research within the fashion industry." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-322.
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Kruger, Heinrich. "A stratigic architecture for a start-up short term insurer operating on mutual principles in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97339.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research investigates the short-term insurance industry in South Africa in order to develop a strategic architecture for a new player to enter the market, differentiated primarily by operating on mutual principles. Mutual insurance is not something new and is widely applied across the world. However, in South Africa there is only one company that operates completely as a mutual. That company is known as the Professional Provident Society (PPS), and has been in operation since 1941. Although PPS operates completely as a mutual, it has only recently started to take part in the short-term insurance industry. Apart from them, there is no other short-term insurer that operates on mutual principles. In order to develop a strategic architecture, a thorough understanding of the industry and market was obtained by analysing the external and internal environments of short-term insurers in South Africa. The research is based on solid statistical data on all registered insurers, available from the governing body for insurers in South Africa, the Financial Services Board, as well as more qualitative data in the form of reports on industry analysis, performed by major auditors like KPMG and PWC. It also takes into consideration “cutting edge” approaches to starting up a new business, regardless of industry, through the application of the “Customer Development Model”, an approach based on lean and agile principles to mitigate the risk of developing a product / service at high cost before knowing if the market actually has a need or appetite for it. This research concludes by offering a strategic architecture and strategic implementation plan for a new player to enter the market, based on the analysis performed though the application of various strategic tools and frameworks. The primary findings of this research are that the industry is highly competitive, with longstanding ‘giants’ supported by parent companies. Those ‘giants’, however, all operate as stock insurers, and a transition by any one of them to mutual insurer, is highly unlikely. As mentioned, the industry currently only has one mutual insurer. This means there is really only one competitor (PPS) in terms of the profit sharing model and in that, PPS has a rather niche focus since its products are only available to graduate professionals. This research uses further external and internal environment analysis methods to extract industry information used in the formulation of a strategic architecture and business model for a new player to compete in the environment described above. It suggests that there is, in fact, room for a new player and that it can differentiate itself from stock insurers by applying the mutual model. It can further differentiate itself from stock insurers and PPS by expanding its market focus (i.e. not only for graduate professionals) and by utilising technology in productive and creative ways that encourages engagement with customers in a new way.
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Crooker, Aaron R. "IMPROVED METHODOLOGY FOR THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." UKnowledge, 2007. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/507.
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Since the enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, US universities have been given a tacit mandate to manage their intellectual assets in a commercializable way. However, university technology transfer offices have struggled to facilitate innovators and promote economic development because of asymmetric information and processes. After an analysis of premier university technology transfer offices (TTO), an improved methodology, which increases productivity of technology transfer, has been developed. The proposed methodology addresses many of the low level issues facing the commercialization and licensing process. Embedding TTO members with research institutes or colleges, assisting in funding procurement and marketing of research to external firms using innovative media are methods that can minimize technology transfer inefficiency. It is the conclusion of this thesis that improved technology transfer helps promote the overall mission of a university, which is diffusing knowledge for the public benefit.
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Musara, Mazanai. "The role played by business development services providers (BDSs) in improving access to finance by start-up SMEs in the Buffalo City Municipality." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/359.
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are very important to employment creation, poverty alleviation and the sustainable economic development of a nation. Encouraging SMEs, especially start-ups is crucial for sustainable economic growth. However, the failure rate of start-up SMEs in South Africa is one of the highest in the world. In reviewing the literature of the causes of the failure of start-up SMEs, access to finance emerged as a prime challenge. Start-up SMEs find it very difficult to obtain external finance from commercial banks and venture capitalists. The national and provincial governments in South Africa have realised that access to finance is a major constraint to the growth and survival of start-up SMEs and have put in place certain measures to improve access to finance by start-up SMEs. One of the primary measures put in place by government to improve access to finance by start-up SMEs is the provision of Business Development Service by some government agencies. This research investigates the role of Business Development Services Providers (BDSs) in improving access to finance for start-up SMEs. Questions arise as to why the failure rate of start-up SMEs is high in South Africa despite all these government measures aimed at assisting start-ups to access finance. Empirical research was conducted to investigate the role of BDS in improving access to finance by start-up SMEs. The instrument used for data collection was the self-administered questionnaire. The statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, T-test, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis. The Cronbach‟s alpha was used as a measure of reliability. The results of the study revealed that: Access to finance is still a major problem hindering the survival of start-up SMEs. There is a lack of awareness of BDS providers and their services by the majority of start-up SMEs. There is a significant positive relationship between the use of BDS by start-up SMEs and success in accessing finance. Start-up SMEs that are aware of BDS do make use of the services. The results suggest that BDS are important to improving access to finance by start-up SMEs. However, there is a need to build awareness and encourage the use of BDS by start-up SMEs to improve their access to finance and ultimately increase their chances of survival.
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Van, der Walt Suanne. "Business plan for a start-up business venture : the establishment of on-site day-care centres at major corporates, office parks and government institutions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97290.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Little Office (TLO) is a proposed start-up that will enter the childcare industry as a provider of on-site day-care at office parks. The unique service offering that TLO will propose to the market is on-site day-care which will not only serve the employers in question, but also their employees. TLO offers organisations the opportunity to address employee productivity related to childcare, as well as to attract and retain skills, while being able to outsource the actual day-care function, which is unrelated to their core business. The service offering to the children and their parents will include a focus on educational, social, physical and emotional development. Market trend analysis indicates an increase in demand for day-care. Combined with the fact that companies are ramping up efforts to attract and retain employees, this results in a situation where the market size and market trends indicate significant opportunities for TLO. Competition is present but due to the size of the market and the core differences in the business model presented by TLO the threat of competition is not fierce. The strategy has been developed around the market analysis and by taking into account the opportunities and threats that exist for TLO. TLO’s strategy therefore serves to differentiate it from the rest of the market in terms of location of centres as well as primary target customers. Coupled with the research evidence of positive outcomes on employee performance, this suggests the concept will be welcomed by new economy organisations. The marketing strategy will aim at large businesses, office parks and government institutions. TLO will present custom feasibility studies to identified customers to establish whether the business is feasible in terms of space, number of employees with children in the organisation, requirements by parents etc. TLO’s strategy is to develop not only core service offerings but also distinctive competencies such as a lower child to carer ratio and high quality, cutting edge and innovative childcare. The various branches of TLO will be run by a central administrative hub, where most of the costs will initially be incurred. This centralised office will be run by the owner and would require administrative and qualified social worker staff. Each branch will require qualified educational staff in line with the number of children per branch. Due to the regulatory requirements inherent in the childcare industry, TLO will base their business operations around achieving compliance excellence in their business. In addition, a continuous evaluation of childcare sciences and re-evaluation of TLO’s service offering will ensure that the latest developments in childcare are addressed and thus TLO remains competitive and progressive. The business model is low risk and provides positive operating cash flow from year three. Through partnering with labour brokers and the use of intelligent placement strategies, TLO will ensure that they have the correct staff in the correct place. Combined with continual audits of performance, TLO will turn the human resources risk into a competitive advantage. The main objectives for the first three years of operation are: To open four branches averaging 20 children per branch within the first year; To increase the number of clients served by 100% in Year 2 and again in Year 3; and To develop a sustainable, profitable, start-up business.
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Best, Simon. "On a wing and a prayer stories of the use of improvisation by NEIS businesses during the start-up phase /." Australasian Digital Theses Program, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20060824.142152.
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Thesis (PhD) - Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology - 2006. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207).
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Brettl, Eva, Vinia Kleinert, and Liliya Karamatova. "The New Venture Creation Process in Cooperation with Science Park Jönköping." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12445.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how students at Jönköping University can establish a new business and to what extent Science Park Jönköping is involved throughout the business creation process.
Background
Numerous researches have been done on new venture creation and business incubation. However, these two areas of research are rarely combined. When it comes to venture creation, most theories focus either solely on the start-up process or on the entrepreneur and the environment. The novelty of this thesis lies in combining those two different fields of research and at the same time focusing on the entrepreneur, the environment and the start-up process. The authors aim at investigating the start-up process in connection with the business incubator Science Park Jönköping. This paper is opposing new venture creation process theory with empirical findings and further examining the influence of the business incubator Science Park Jönköping.
Method
The authors of this paper followed a qualitative approach which was implemented in the form of personal interviews. The participants of this study are entrepreneurs who created their venture in cooperation with Science Park Jönköping as well as one representative from Science Park Jönköping.
Conclusion
Contrary to previous research, the participants of this study do not perceive the business creation process and its stages as linear. Moreover, influential factors like the attributes of the entrepreneur and the environment have to be taken into account when speaking about the start-up of a company. Science Park Jönköping offers services at all stages of the process whereas the most intense contact between the business incubator and the entrepreneur takes place in the very beginning.
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Hamwi, Michael. "Understanding and analysing business models in the context of energy transition. Proposition of the DRBMC (Demand Response Business Model Canvas) to design new entrepreneur's business model in “Demand Response” markets." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0114/document.
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L'accumulation de gaz à effet de serre dans l'atmosphère, produite par des activités anthropiques notamment dans le secteur de l’énergie est une des causes principales du changement climatique. Par conséquent, réaliser une véritable transition énergétique par une décarbonisation des réseaux électriques est devenue un besoin urgent pour atténuer les effets du réchauffement climatique. Dans cette transition, l’introduction des énergies renouvelables a été initiée depuis plusieurs années, principalement en raison de la participation de nouveaux acteurs à ce marché. Aujourd’hui, l’un des grands défis est de maintenir l’équilibre et la sécurité du réseau électrique en tenant compte de la diversité et de la variabilité des ressources énergétiques renouvelables connectées au réseau. L’une des approches permettant de régler ce problème et d’accroître la flexibilité du réseau électrique par ce que l’on désigne comme la Réponse à la Demande (RD). Cette thèse examine précisément ces nouvelles approches et montre l’intérêt de repenser les relations entre les différentes partie-prenantes pour faire émerger des nouveaux modèles d’affaires afin de déployer de nouvelles innovations au service de la transition énergétique. La méthodologie de recherche mise en œuvre de cette thèse consiste en une revue systématique de la littérature et une étude des données empiriques de 15 jeunes entreprises européennes du secteur de l’énergie. En conséquence, la thèse fournit à la communauté de la recherche (1) une méthode de classification pour catégoriser les différents modèles d’affaires de l’énergie (MAEs) et présente une première synthèse des MAE identifiés dans la littérature; (2) un cadre d’analyse des start-ups dans le secteur de l’énergie, complété par l’analyse de 15 start-ups de ce domaine; (3) un outil conceptuel pour l'innovation en matière de RD, appelé Canevas de Modèle d'Affaires de Réponse de Demande (CMARD), qui comprend 12 éléments interreliés. Ce canevas vise à évaluer les activités des offres de RD et à soutenir l'émergence de nouveau modèles d'affaires de RD. Ces résultats permettent de proposer un cadre analytique simplifié des pratiques existantes et peuvent également aider des entrepreneurs ou décideurs à explorer et concevoir de nouvelles offres sur le marché de la réponse à la demandeThe accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, produced by human activities in the energy sector is one of the main causes of climate change. Therefore, the decarbonization of power systems has become an urgent need the mitigate to the effects of climate change and achieve the energy transition. The share of renewable energy technologies has been increasing mainly due to the participation of new market players. Today, however, one of the great challenges is to maintain the electricity system’s balance and security despite the large amount of renewable energy resources connected to the grid. One of the approaches to deal with this issue and to increase power system flexibility is the Demand Response (DR). Moreover, scholars argue that business model innovation can act as an energy transition driver. This thesis examines business model innovations in the context of the energy transition by investigating emerging start-up business models. The implemented research methodology in this thesis consists of a systematic literature review and an investigation of empirical data of 15 European energy start-ups. As a result, the thesis provides the research community with (1) a grouping method to classify different Energy Business Models (EBMs) and an initial synthesis of the EBMs identified in the literature; (2) a framework to analyse start-ups in the energy sector, completed with the analysis of 15 energy start-ups; (3) and a conceptual tool for DR innovation, named as the Demand Response Business Model Canvas (DRBMC), which includes 12 interrelated elements. This canvas aims at evaluating DR activities and supporting the emergence of new DR business models. These results can also help entrepreneurs explore new demand response market opportunities, enabling a better understanding and providing a simplified analytic framework of existing business practices
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Mohr, Sebastian, and Hanna Berendes. "Founder’s Human Capital and Vision as influencing Factors for the Choice of Leadership Style and Employees in New Ventures." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39831.
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Background: New ventures face manifold challenges. Literature has already examined many of the challenges that founders of new firms might encounter during the start-up phase. Studies have been investigating traits of the founders as well as traits of the organizations, and linked them to success or failure of the firm. The areas of founder’s human capital and vision and the firm’s employee selection criteria and leadership style have often been taken into consideration. Nevertheless, there is no framework connecting all these areas with a focus on how they influence each other, leaving criteria as success or failure beside.Purpose: This study aims for creating a framework connecting the areas of start-up-founder’s human capital and vision and the venture’s employee selection criteria and leadership style. It seeks to provide answers to the following research questions: (1) “How does start-up founder’s human capital influence the creation of a vision, the choice of leadership style and the selection of employees?” and (2) “How does start-up founder’s vision influence the choice of leadership style and the selection of employees?”Method: To answer the research questions, a multiple-case study was conducted. We created a topic guide and gathered qualitative data through conducting in-depth interviews. The respondents were mainly operating their new venture in the area of Jönköping. After coding and contextualizing our data, we analyzed it.Conclusion: Human capital was influencing all other areas through either active avoidance or repetition of behaviors already employed in the past. We found major differences of the visions of new ventures. Therefore, we started differentiating between a “business-vision” and a “mission-vision”. “Mission-vision” start-ups choose their employees according to personality and give them a voice in the firm, therefore fostering a transformational leadership style. “Business-vision” start-ups on the other side hire applicants based on skills, to fulfil very defined tasks based on deadlines and therefore performing a transactional approach.
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Blad, Sofie. "The influence of social aspects on new venture creation : A qualitative study on the role of entrepreneurs’ and entrepreneuses’ social capital and social competence in the start-up phase." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1783.
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Previous entrepreneurship research has shown that networks are of great importance when discovering and exploiting business opportunities, i.e. in the start up process of new venture (e.g. Davidsson and Honig 2003; Evald, Klyver, and Svendsen 2006; Klyver, Hindle, and Meyer forthcoming). The value of a network is referred to as social capital, which refers to the amount of resources, both tangible and intangible, that an entrepreneur or entrepreneuse might have access to through the members of their network (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998). Social capital is the product of social interactions (Anderson et al. 2007), implying that a person’s social abilities, i.e. social competence, can influence the creation of social capital (Baron and Markman 2000, 2003). Social capital the factor that helps the entrepreneur “get through the door”, while the entrepreneur’s social abilities determine the outcome of that interaction (Baron and Markman 2000:107). The focus of this study is, thus, to explore whether entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses utilize different types of the social capital in the process of starting a new venture and whether they perceive social competence to have an influential role in this process.
The theoretical framework consist of three main theoretical areas; social capital, social competence, and psychological gender. The first part is based on Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) model of social capital and describes theories explaining factors influence social capital embedded within a person’s network relationships. The second part covers social competence and the abilities that constitute this concept. Further, five dimensions are identified as comprising social competence, i.e. social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability, apparent sincerity, and social manipulation (Baron and Markman 2000, 2003; Hoehn-Weiss et al. 2004; Ferris et al. 2005, 2007; Riggio 1986). The last part discusses whether there might exist differences between entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses regarding their behaviours and their psychological gender (Bem 1974, 1975, 1977; Spence et al. 1975).
The research design show similarities with both an inductive and a deductive approach, with a focus on the induction since little research within the entrepreneurship field has combined the different topics comprising the scope of this study. Further, this implies qualitative research methods and the empirical data was collect through conducting 14 semi structured interviews with entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses as well as through a questionnaire aiming at determine the respondents’ psychological gender.
The results of the present study indicate that entrepreneurs and entrepreneuses utilize different the types of social capital in the stages of the start up phase. Further, the study show that social competence plays and important role in the start up process and that there is a circular relation between social capital and social competence. Moreover, the results of the study indicate that male and female entrepreneurs behave differently in the start up phase and that their perceptions about and usage of their social competence might differ.
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Leslie, Susan Elder. "An examination of the information behaviour of new entrepreneurs in the start-up phase of a business submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1271.
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Zehr, Brock Allyn. "Entrepreneurial Qualities for Successful Development and Sustainability of New Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3130.
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Entrepreneurial small businesses are significant to the U.S. economy, as they represent 99% of employer firms and employ 49% of the private sector. Nearly half of new businesses fail within the first 5 years of operation. While external factors beyond the control of business owners account for some failures, many occur because of managerial inadequacies. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of successful entrepreneurs to understand the qualities needed to create and sustain new small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) beyond 5 years. The sample consisted of 21 entrepreneurs from Northeastern Indiana who created and operated SMEs successfully for at least 5 years. The conceptual framework for this study was human capital theory and entrepreneurial leadership theory. The data were collected from semistructured interviews. Participants completed transcript reviews and member checking was conducted to enhance data credibility and trustworthiness. The phenomenological reduction method was used for data analysis and included bracketing, horizontalizing, clustering, integrating invariant statements, and synthesizing composites. The following themes emerged in addressing the guiding question: entrepreneurial intention recognized at a young age, creative problem-solving skills, business and support systems, entrepreneurial passion, opportunity recognition and seizure, and task and managerial delegation. The study findings can help inform best practices to help future entrepreneurs, and those who educate, train, and mentor them, create and operate successful new ventures.
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Surrel, de Saint Julien Odile de. "Dynamique et configuration(s) de l'évolution de projets de création d'entreprises de haute technologie. Développement et contingence. Restitution d'un processus à partir d'une recherche-intervention : le cas d'une innovation de hautes technologies de l'invention à son exploitation." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00979856.
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La thèse vise à expliquer la dynamique de l'évolution des projets de création d'entreprises de haute technologie à travers les différentes configurations empruntées par le développement technologique et organisationnel. La revue de littérature dans le domaine de l'entrepreneuriat technologique a montré une grande richesse de facteurs explicatifs de l'évolution des projets de création d'entreprises mais aussi des déficiences du rôle attribué à la technologie qui lui confèrent un statut d'artéfact et non celui de processus à part entière. Une approche conceptuelle de la création de l'entreprise de haute technologie fondée sur la théorie de l'acteur réseau permet de dépasser les approches déterministes afin de s'intéresser au développement conjoint de la technologie et de l'organisation. Le cas d'une innovation de hautes technologies de l'invention à son exploitation est analysé en profondeur selon une démarche de recherche-intervention. L'analyse conduit a l'élaboration d'un outil d'aide à la décision (le dispositif d'intervention) et d'un modèle dynamique de la création de l'entreprise de haute technologie différent de ceux présentés dans la littérature entrepreneuriale. Les principaux apports résident dans l'aide à la prise de décisions stratégiques et à celui de la construction de l'organisation. Cette aide, au départ fondée sur les pratiques de l'intervention, s'est transformée peu à peu en un processus d'apprentissage collectif basé sur une modélisation rationnelle de la construction de l'entreprise technologique en favorisant l'émergence de nouveaux savoirs partageables et durables dans le temps.
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Jordanov, Dejan. "Up-lift in Vaggeryd : Qualitative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Education in Vaggeryd." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-991.
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PROBLEM DISCUSSION: Vaggeryd is a small municipality Småland. In addition to its
strategic position along the main traffic route E4, Vaggeryd is very interesting also because
of its advanced view on growing of the business sector, in both short and long-term per-
spective.
To meet that goal the municipality of Vaggeryd started to invest in “Egenföretagareutbildningen”
EFU in cooperation with Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). The
main idea is that students attend the courses that are held by JIBS and during their studies start their own business in a local business incubator called Fenix.
PURPOSE: To host such education requires a huge amount of energy and resources from
the municipality, which consequently would like to get answers to questions like “Is it worth investing in the education?” or “What are the results of such education?”
The aim of this paper is to give the answers to those crucial questions though I believe that
the time that has passed from the beginning of the education is too short and that the
number of the students was not large enough to get definitive answers.
This paper concentrates on a narrow part of the qualitative research methods – an inter-
view. It is divided into two parts, a theoretical part and the empirical findings.
FINDINGS: The research showed that six students out of a total of ten from generation 2005 started a new venture, three will take over a family business, and one has not decided
to start a business yet. Of six students in generation 2003 four have started a business and one of them finished in bankruptcy, one plans to start a business in the future and one does not have a good business idea.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Answers that the interviews returned gave interesting sugges-
tions to both the municipality of Vaggeryd and JIBS about how to improve EFU. I would
emphasise two, I believe, the most important recommendations. First municipality has to
attract neighbouring municipalities in the EFU project. In addition, a greater effort should be made to help students build a spider’s web of business contacts.
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Bouma, Andrea. "A business feasibility tool for artisan cheese operation start-up." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/26832.
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The objective of this study was to develop a decision making tool to determine economic feasibility of artisan cheese operations. A survey of current Oregon artisan cheese companies was used to gain knowledge of the fixed and variable costs associated with cheese production and business start-up. The data from this survey was used to design a business model within Microsoft Excel 2010 that effectively describes the business environment in which an artisan cheese company could exist. Economic feasibility was determined through net present value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of the investment. The model estimates size of the production and aging facilities based on production volume and cheese types produced. The application of the tool is demonstrated in this study through testing of several scenarios within each area of investigation: impact of milk pricing, cheese styles, product retail price, and geographical location of the creamery. The model also predicts the minimum product retail pricing necessary to ensure a positive NPV of the potential venture at several sizes of production and across several different styles of cheeses.Graduation date: 2012
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Chen, Yu-Jung, and 陳俞蓉. "Applying Neural Neural Networks to the Forecast of Successful New Business Start-up." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69551349554346942036.
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Business start-up is a series of detailed and complicated process. Previous research suggests that business idea to the final as the ratio of listed companies only six millionths. In fact, among these start-up businesses, only 60% can operate more than one year. The phenomenon of low success rate has led to the research interest on how to succeed in business start-up. This research aims at finding variables that can affect the success of business start-up. In this research, back-propagation neural network (BPN) is utilized to train and forecast the success of a start-up business. BPN is compared its forecast accuracy with traditional statistical methods such as Discriminate Analysis, and Logistic Regression Analysis. The results found that BPN has incurred better forecast accuracy.
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Benke, Kristine. "Business plan of vegetarian lifestyle online shop Green Bean in Latvia." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2902.
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The purpose of this document is to present innovative business plan in the field of
vegetarianism which is rapidly growing and currently underdeveloped market in Latvia. The
idea of family business is to create vegetarian lifestyle online shop with the goal to provide
wide range of vegetarian products, inspire in vegetarian cooking, help in meeting other
vegetarians as well as inform and give advices about vegetarian lifestyle in Latvia.
The methodology used in development of this business plan is the analysis of historical roots
of vegetarianism, research about latest trends in customers’ lifestyles and eating and shopping
habits under the influence of current economic crisis situation. Research also explores main
reasons for people becoming vegetarian. For acquiring more specific and local trends about
vegetarianism - online survey was performed with more than 350 vegetarian respondents. The
analysis of data and the conclusions drawn about eating and shopping habits of Latvian
vegetarians were applied in different business development tools – PESTS, TOWS, IFE, EFE
matrixes as well as 7P’s marketing mix – in order to determine main target audience, product
assortment, price level, corporate and business strategies as well as marketing techniques of
the vegetarian online shop.
According to the results of the analysis the intense growth and focus strategies were chosen
for the company’s development. The positioning – highly interactive provider of wide range
of vegetarian products. As a final point, implementation procedures and financial perspective
is presented with positive NPV and IRR ratio highly exceeding discount rate which proves
that business plan is financially beneficial.O propósito deste documento é apresentar um plano de negócio inovador no campo do vegetarianismo o qual está em rápido crescimento e o seu mercado, actualmente, ainda em desenvolvimento na Letónia. A ideia de negócio de família é de criar uma loja de estilo de vida vegetariano online com o objectivo de disponibilizar uma ampla gama de produtos vegetarianos, inspirado na culinária vegetariana, apoio para conhecer outros vegetarianos assim como informar e dar conselhos sobre o estilo de vida vegetariano na Letónia. A metodologia usada no desenvolvimento deste plano de negócio é a análise das raízes históricas do vegetarianismo, pesquisa sobre as últimas tendências de estilos de vida, dos hábitos alimentares e de consumo dos clientes, sob a influência da actual situação de crise económica no mundo e também na Letónia. A pesquisa também explora, as principais razões, pelas quais, as pessoas se tornam vegetarianas. Para obter mais informações relativas a tendências locais e específicas sobre o vegetarianismo - foram realizadas sondagens online a mais de 350 vegetarianos. A análise dos dados e das conclusões retiradas sobre os hábitos alimentares e de consumo dos Letões vegetarianos foi aplicada em ferramentas de desenvolvimento – matrizes PEST, TOWS, IFE, EFE assim como os 7 P´s do marketing mix – com ordem a determinar o principal público-alvo, selecção de produto, nível de preço, estratégias empresariais e de negócio, assim como técnicas de marketing da loja vegetariana online. De acordo com os resultados da análise, o intenso crescimento e as estratégias focalizadas foram escolhidas para o desenvolvimento da empresa. O posicionamento - fornecedor altamente interactivo de uma ampla gama de produtos vegetarianos. Como etapa final, procedimentos de implementação e perspectiva financeira são apresentados com NPV positivo e o rácio IRR excedendo largamente os valores de desconto que provam que o plano de negócio é financeiramente vantajoso.
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Cristino, Miguel Serradeiro. "A business plan for a new business model in the food delivery market." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/69087.
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The purpose of this thesis is to document the research on finding a solid business plan for the creation of a new start-up in the food delivery market. Having conducted research with more than 200 stakeholders (restaurants owners and potential eaters), it was possible to study and measure the existing problems and to look for possible solutions. As a result, this thesis finishes with the design of a business plan for a platform that will aggregate the restaurants that deliver food with their own couriers and will provide management services (logistics, billing or marketing, for example) to them.
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MING, HSU HUNG, and 許宏銘. "A Study Of The Innovation Business Of A New Start-up Company Of Cross-field Technologies Integration." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93817438169773600330.
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碩士東海大學
管理碩士學程在職進修專班
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In a deregulated market, and under knowledge company era of global competition and net working social, Have been changed the competitive way before. Also, Based on a quick changes in technology and a short life of product, a new start-up company need to have innovation and technologies integration, to establish advantage on a new market and an existence. For this, to contribute the new start-up company for making decision on resource and strategy. The research draft resolution on business processes outsourcing and industry change model with technologies integration; This will subvert thinking of previous management and benefit a new start-up company. The research is intended for Taiwan tools industry. And use some studies to find any opportunities and necessities on integration business strategy with technologies. This research findings and conclusions are As Follows: (1)The technology gets more and more progressing, the radical innovation on low lever market need more technologies integration. (2)Smaller businesses with technologies integration will have more competitiveness when making R&D outsourcing. (3)When the components from a big size factory mad up a small proportion of the total cost and without economics of scale, then perform outsourcing, and the components will have a high gross profit by production with technologies integration and business processes outsourcing. (4)The technology integration-based start-up can develop the low-order product with higher profits in the initial stage, and develop the high-order product in the middle stage. (5)Taiwan manufacturers will have more opportunities to carry on growth orders of OEM outsourcing, under the trend of globalization.
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Tsai, ER-Shien, and 蔡爾賢. "A business plan feasibility study of a new start up company Base on the project “ Oleo chemical Derivatives Ester”." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77677185819726050383.
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商學研究所
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Abstract This study is focus to the business plan of new investment project of PFC Corporation; the major purpose is to study the feasibility of this business plan. Business plans include “industrious back ground”; “market analysis”; ”industrial structure analysis”; “market strategy”; “production strategy”; “key successful factor” “competitive and risk analysis”; and “ finical analysis” etc. The object of this study is base on the project,“ Oleo chemical Derivatives -Ester”. Ester derivatives are basic materials of many different application, those include personal care; plastic processing; lubricants, and cosmetic. This feasibility study has covered all different market area and tries to find out a best solution of each strategy as mention above. The result of this study shows this “Oleo chemical Derivatives “project is feasible. By different finical analysis methods such as “EPS”; “Current value”; “IRR”; or “years of recovery”, every method shows positive results.
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Don, Jar-Shuen, and 唐嘉順. "A Business Plan Feasibility Study of a new start up Company Base on the Project"Friction Material Derivatives Product"." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08889202864887619665.
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企業管理學系研究所
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Current world economy is impacted by the new and the old economy systems primarily due to high-tech software and hardware products that are constantly emerging to the market place. It has brought many innovations and high efficiencies to people’s daily lives, e.g., the food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc. The influence of this evolution is potentially enormous and such evolution inspires people’s confidence in the current Electronic Age. By reviewing the world’s current economy, it appears that winner’s economy system must rely on both the new and the old economy industries positively. In other words, the new economy has to be established on the foundation of stable traditional industries, and the old economy system must be improved and advanced with the help of the new technology. The basic reason is that the necessities of people’s life are mostly supplied by the traditional industries from the old economy. As an island nation under the trend of the world’s economy, Taiwan’s new and old economy systems are required to be balanced in such a way that mutually one benefits the other. Because of this concern, the new government proposed a “Green Silicon-Island Economical Development Project”, and aggressively launched a “Boosting Traditional Industry Plan” as well. By cultivating the traditional industries, the new economic technology can prosper accordingly. At this opportunistic juncture, Company A formulated a 5-year business plan to venture into a traditional industry: manufacturing of friction materials. The goal is to raise 4 million USD for starting up a production facility to manufacture and market a wide range of friction materials, in an effort to respond to the Government’s call of boosting traditional industries. The main focuses of the proposed business are to build a solid manufacturing foundation on Taiwan, to market the products to the entire world, and to thrive the business to excellence with technology-based operation and management. The variety of friction materials is overwhelming. In terms of material composition, friction materials can be classified into the following four types: semi-metallic, sintered metallic, paper-based, and carbon fiber-based materials. This proposal explores key issues that are essential to the success of the production of all four types of friction materials. These key issues include: industry infrastructure, market size analysis, marketing strategies, operation networking, risk analysis, and core technical strength. Based on the above analysis, a 5-year financial planning is presented. Detailed analysis for the financial objectives on financial feasibility, cash flow, break-even point, and investment interests are also included. ……………
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Wu, Chih-chen, and 吳志成. "The Influences of Conglomerates Resources, Organizational Characters, and Business Model on New Start-up Business Performance － Empirical Study of Conglomerates Enterprises in Taiwan." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82579005547223032526.
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碩士國立成功大學
高階管理碩士在職專班
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On the era of competition with speedy and placing emphasis on the teamwork, the board of directors and managerial teams who response the success or failure of a new start-up business are the key factors, and the effect on the performance from business model is worthy to study. This research is directed at the conglomerates enterprises in Taiwan and conducted to its managers, 600 copies of questionnaires had been issued and 203 effective samples have been collected for analysis, with methods such as Descriptive statistics, Chi-Square test, and Linear structure relationship model (LISREL). It aims to investigate how the new start-up business of conglomerates enterprises to get performance, and to discuss the relationship between Conglomerates resources, Organizational characters, Business model and performance. The findings are: (1) The conglomerates enterprises with and without new start-up business has significant difference on Organizational characters, Business model and performance, but no significant difference on Conglomerates resource. (2) The conglomerates enterprises with and without vertical strategical alliance has no significant on Organizational characters and Business model, but has significant difference on Conglomerates resource and performance. (3) Regarding the model of new start-up business performance, it is found that Conglomerates resource has positive effect on Organizational characters and Business model, and has no influences on performance. Conglomerates resource and Organizational characters has positive effect on Business model and performance. Business model has positive effect on performance. Conglomerates resource, Organizational characters and Business model has positive effect on performance. From the study we also found that: the bigger the scale of conglomerates enterprises the more conglomerates resource can be provided, and it is helpful for a new start-up business performance. But if this conglomerates resource had without integrating, monitoring, controlling or the managerial teams and business model had not done right, the advantage of this conglomerates resource is unhelpful on new start-up business performance.
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Mvula, Althea Elizabeth. "Entrepreneurial intentions and start-up realities : the case of industrial design students in South Africa." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24954.
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Industrial design is recognised for the value-oriented benefits it offers to businesses. Industrial design ensures that new products are more efficient, usable, convenient and safe to use within the evolving business environment. One of the important factors for the continuous achievement of high product quality and general economic growth and stability in countries such as West Germany, Korea and Japan is their sound industrial design base. Industrial design programmes can be instrumental to ignite an entrepreneurial and innovation spirit to assist in curbing the high unemployment rate and very low levels of entrepreneurial intentions in South Africa. The core of tertiary industrial design students has unique capabilities that can assist the South African economy to stimulate manufacturing, job creation and economic growth. The purpose of this study was to investigate the entrepreneurial intentions among industrial design students enrolled for the programme in Three-Dimensional Design, at Universities of Technology in South Africa. In addition, this study investigates the relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and actual business formation by graduates of the programme. Studies have been carried out in South Africa on entrepreneurial intentions, but not on the formation, occurrence and implementation of entrepreneurial intentions amongst industrial design students, specifically.
To test the links between business education and entrepreneurial intentions, a research model based on Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behaviour was adopted and tested using quantitative empirical data collected from students in industrial design at two Universities of Technology. Quantitative data were collected from a sample of 161 participants using a validated self-administered questionnaire. IBM SPSS and STATA were used to conduct descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests, factor analysis, reliability and structural equation modelling on the primary quantitative data. The empirical evidence partially supports the effectiveness of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in predicting entrepreneurial intentions. Although perceived social norms and self-efficacy is positively related to entrepreneurial intentions, results failed to reach statistical significance. However, personal attitude was found to mediate the relationship between these variables and entrepreneurial intention. Whilst business education is positively related to self-efficacy, entrepreneurial knowledge is positively related to higher levels of personal attitude and self-efficacy.
The transformation of entrepreneurial intentions into actual business start-ups were investigated using qualitative empirical data collected from past graduates of the Three-Dimensional Design programme. Qualitative data were collected from a sample of 22 graduates through structured interviews. ATLAS.ti version 7.5.9 was used to analyse the qualitative data. The researcher provided evidence that there is a relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and the actual start-up of a business, as 45.5 per cent of graduates started businesses. Furthermore, business education positively influenced the actual start-up of businesses. However, graduates experienced many challenges to business start-up, with implications for the teaching of business subjects and for policy makers.Business Management
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Shinga, Nonkululeko Yolette Zenobia. "Taking ideas from mind to market : challenges and critical success factors for effective incubation of ICT start-up firms within the innovation hub." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7354.
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The study examines the challenges and critical success factors for effective incubation of ICT start-up firms. Information and communication technology (ICT) start-up firms are internationally acknowledged for their contribution to economic growth, improving the quality of life and job creation.
The selected case site is the Innovation Hub which hosts a hi-tech incubator called Maxum. The Innovation Hub is an internationally accredited science park located in Tshwane, Pretoria which was launched by the Gauteng Provincial Government in year 2002.
The Innovation Hub’s challenge is that its incubation programme is similar to those employed in the developed world. The off-the-shelve programme has not been customised for use within the South African socio-economic context. However, the Innovation Hub is a relatively high performing incubator which has met the prescribed precursors for success.
The critical success factors include the hands-on professional services provided to entrepreneurs, value networks and government support. In order to improve the success rate of the incubation of ICT start-up firms, there is a need to adopt a long-term approach towards innovation support and to establish an incentive funding mechanism that fosters job creation by entrepreneurs.
The objectives of the study were achieved. The researcher has extended Kumar & Kumar framework and added three critical success factors. The findings of the study cannot be generalised but can be replicated. These findings are of value to the incubator managers and also to the policy-makers when developing and enacting policies that promote incubation of ICT start-up firms.Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010.
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Tzin, Netta. "The artists startup studio: an integrated new business model for a new company integrating entrepreneurs and artists." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14157.
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This thesis proposes an integrated business model designed for a new company, set to facilitate artists who are creative entrepreneurs. The model proposes integration between different business practices, including new product development, multiple startup development simultaneously and communication and strategy services for brands; all practices integrate in the development and execution processes the artists who are creative entrepreneurs.
The company proposes an innovative and integrated approach, combining few segments deriving from different business models in order to match the needs of the creative entrepreneurs to thrive in the business world on the one hand, and of the cultural and creative industries on the other, including:
The unique set of characteristics of the creative entrepreneur, what defines a artist as a creative entrepreneur; what are the needs of the creative entrepreneur in order to thrive in the business world and manage to develop their ideas into a business;
The methodology of idea developed into product, as a properly defined method which will reduce to minimum the risks and range of mistakes in the product development is a key factor for the financial success of a company;
The emerging model of the startup studio is adjusted to fit a multiple development of internal ideas into startups by an experienced team of professionals; a model which reduces the risk factors of inexperienced entrepreneurs; and enlarges the success rates as company focuses simultaneously on more than one project, by which multiplying the rates for exit.
Shift in trends in the cultural and creative industries opening more and more business opportunities for artists to express their skills and talents.
Implementation of solutions for growing brands needs in aspects of communication of brand values and marketing strategies, which turn to concepts applied by artistic approaches.Esta dissertação propõe um modelo empresarial integrado, concebido para uma startup, facilitando artistas empreendedores criativos. Propõe a integração entre diferentes práticas de negócios, incluindo o desenvolvimento do novo produto, desenvolvimento simultâneo de múltiplas startups e comunicação e estratégia para marcas; integrando artistas empreendedores criativos no desenvolvimento e processos de execução. A empresa propõe uma abordagem inovadora, combinando alguns segmentos provenientes de diferentes modelos de negócio, a fim de corresponder às necessidades dos empreendedores criativos de forma a prosperarem tanto no mundo empresarial como nas indústrias culturais e criativas, incluindo: O conjunto de características únicas do empreendedor criativo, o que define um artista como empreendedor criativo; quais as suas necessidades a fim de prosperar no mundo empresarial desenvolvendo as suas ideias e transformando-as num negócio; A metodologia da ideia desenvolvida ao produto definido, reduzindo ao mínimo os riscos e erros no desenvolvimento do produto como um factor chave ao sucesso financeiro da empresa; O modelo emergente da startup studio estrutura-se de forma a ajustar-se ao desenvolvimento múltiplo de ideias internas em startups, com uma equipa de profissionais experiente; o que reduz os factores de risco a empresários inexperientes; e amplia as taxas de sucesso, concentrando-se simultaneamente em mais de um projecto, ao qual são multiplicadas as taxas de saída. Mudança das tendências culturais e criativas abrindo por outro lado mais oportunidades empresariais aos artistas. A necessidade de implementar soluções relativamente à comunicação de valores e estratégias de marketing, transformando-as em conceitos aplicados através de abordagens artísticas.
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Henriques, Joaquim Manuel Souto Soares. "Business plan for a new natural ingredient surf wax." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13865.
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This business plan is set upon the study and development of a new surf wax to be used in the practice of surf and related sports (with main emphasis on traditional surfing).
This wax will be entirely produced using natural ingredients with the majority of the ingredients being of Portuguese origin.
The project tries to answer the research question “Is it possible, in the current business environment, to gather the necessary strategic and operational conditions for creating a start-up surf wax company?”.
The latter is answered through the thorough analysis of a systematic set of procedures and tools of qualitative nature.
Operational and Marketing plans are explored as ongoing tools designed to help the business compete in the market for customers.
Financial Valuation is assessed as a necessity to understand project viability.
This project was also intended to help myself and future as well as current colleagues in understanding the true importance and necessary elements behind a real and complete business plan.Este plano de negócios tem como intenção o estudo e desenvolvimento de uma novo surf wax para ser usado na prática do surf e desportos relacionados (com ênfase principal no surf tradicional). Este wax (cera) será inteiramente produzida com ingredientes naturais sendo a maioria dos ingredientes de origem Portuguesa. O projeto procura responder à pergunta de pesquisa "É possível, no ambiente de negócios atual, reunir as condições estratégicas e operacionais necessárias para a criação de uma empresa start-up de wax?". Esta última é respondida através da análise minuciosa de um conjunto sistemático de procedimentos e ferramentas de natureza qualitativa. Um plano de marketing e um plano operacional são exploradas como ferramentas de desenvolvimento contínuo destinadas a ajudar a empresa a competir no mercado para os clientes. Uma avaliação financeira é realizada pela necessidade de compreender a viabilidade do projeto. Este projeto foi igualmente destinado a ajudar-me a mim própio e a futuros bem como actuais colegas a compreender a verdadeira importância e elementos necessários por trás de um plano de negócios real e completo.
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Costa, Diogo Pacheco de Campos. "A business model for a new trendy snack : the 3Mosso case." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22580.
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The start-up scene is a growing trend, but in order to thrive, start-ups need to construct a fitting business model according to the circumstances where they are. This dissertation aims to understand how to develop a compelling business model, applied to the case of a new trendy snack, the 3Mosso. To develop the different elements of a business model, several business interviews were conducted with key stakeholders to learn specific knowledge about the product, and how to market it; secondary data was collected from companies’ accounts to estimate the market size; an online poll to learn about consumers’ habits was created; and a personal survey for product testing was performed.
The proper implementation of the business model canvas depends on an accurate market analysis which will help determine the value the business wants to deliver to the customer, who are the customers, how to reach them and how to get the business started with a viable model. 3Mosso is a new concept for a very popular product in Portugal, the lupin bean ("tremoço"). It stands out for its cool, gourmet and healthy snack. It is sold at music festivals in an innovative paper package and in restaurants and shops with its handmade pottery pieces. This dissertation follows a practical approach as it grows out of the 3Mosso Case and uses 3Mosso’s business model as answer to the research questions.O fenómeno das start-ups é uma tendência em crescimento, mas de forma a prosperar, as start-ups têm de construir um modelo de negócio adaptado às circunstâncias onde estão inseridas. Esta dissertação visa compreender como se pode desenvolver um modelo de negócio atrativo, aplicado ao caso de um novo petisco, o 3Mosso. Para desenvolver os diferentes elementos do modelo de negócio, foram realizadas várias entrevistas com os principais stakeholders de forma a ganhar conhecimentos específicos sobre o produto e sobre como comercializá-lo; dados secundários foram recolhidos de contas das empresas para estimar o tamanho do mercado; foi criada uma votação on-line para conhecer os hábitos dos consumidores; e foi realizada uma pesquisa pessoal para o teste do produto. A implementação adequada do business model canvas depende de uma análise de mercado precisa que ajude a determinar a proposta de valor para os clientes, quem são os clientes, como alcançá-los e como começar o negócio com um modelo viável. O 3Mosso é um novo conceito para um produto português muito popular em Portugal, o tremoço. Destaca-se por ser um snack cool, gourmet e saudável. É vendido em festivais de música num pacote de papel inovador e em restaurantes e lojas com suas peças de barro feitas à mão. Esta dissertação segue uma abordagem prática dado que utiliza o modelo de negócios da 3Mosso como resposta às questões de pesquisa.
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Rico, Duarte de Oliveira Pimentel Rosado. "Marketing plan of a new consultant company - Wasted Value." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13190.
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I10 – Health General; M13- Start-up; M31- Marketing; Q22- Fishery & AquacultureThis project is intended to create a marketing plan for a new consultant company, Wasted Value, specialized in business related to the sea. This project comes through an opportunity identified at the fish market, including the reuse of fish waste. The business of fish waste is too small, such in number as in value, because these residues are only used for fishmeal production, which is subsequently sold at very low prices. Thus, there is an opportunity to create products and derivatives with higher economic value. The objective is to create added value through a raw material of low market value. With this marketing plan, the goal is to use the new company disclosure and communication techniques in order to reach customers and investors, both national and international, and also to provide an excellent consulting service for customers, by the creation of a relationship of trust and loyalty. Thereby, the main goal, in addition to providing consulting services and, with strategic partners, to create products and by-products such as burger fish, fish sausage, products for animal feed, aquaculture and nutraceutical, in a long-term, the company will produce peptides, highly valued product on the market that can be used in areas with high value market as the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. To sum up, the project Wasted Value aims to be a pioneer consultant specialized in business related to sea, in order to satisfy the greatest number of companies related to this sector.
O presente projecto tem como intenção criar um plano de marketing para uma nova consultora, Wasted Value, especializada em negócios relacionados com o mar. Este projecto surge através de uma oportunidade identificada no mercado do peixe, nomeadamente o reaproveitamento dos resíduos e desperdícios do mesmo. O negócio dos resíduos do peixe é actualmente pouco expressivo, tanto em termos de número como em valor, pois estes resíduos apenas são utilizados para a produção de farinha de peixe, que é, posteriormente, vendida a preços muito baixos. Assim, existe uma oportunidade de criar produtos com maior valor económico. O core business da “WV” passa por prestar serviços de consultoria e também, através dos seus parceiros estratégicos, criar produtos e derivados de valor acrescentado, através de uma matéria-prima de baixo custo, como são os resíduos de peixe. Através deste plano de marketing, o objectivo será utilizar técnicas de divulgação e comunicação da nova empresa, de modo a atrair clientes e investidores, tanto nacionais como internacionais, e prestar um serviço de consultoria de excelência para os clientes, criando assim uma relação de confiança e fidelidade. De salientar que, para além da prestação de serviços de consultoria e criação de produtos e derivados, como hambúrguer de peixe, salsicha de peixe, produtos para rações, para aquacultura e nutracêutica, a longo prazo a empresa irá aconselhar a produção de péptidos, um produto bastante valorizado no mercado, que poderá ser utilizado em áreas com elevado valor de mercado, como é o caso da cosmética e da farmacêutica. Em suma, a elaboração deste plano de marketing passará por apresentar a criação deste novo projecto Wasted Value, uma consultora pioneira especializada em negócios relacionados com mar, de modo a satisfazer o maior número de empresas ligadas a este sector.
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Lin, Hsiu-Ching, and 林秀卿. "The discussion of the key factors that affect new immigrants to start up their micro-businesses: an empirical analysis from the beauty industry." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15112528035975381230.
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The study deeply explored the effect of background, family support, government resources of new immigrants on starting up their micro-businesses of the beauty industry by questionnaire survey analysis. The results is expected to give future entrepreneurs of immigrants and the relevant policy-making units a reference. In addition to the statistical analysis of the survey, a systematic literature review to understand the micro-entrepreneurs operating patterns was done as well. The study found that the five key factors which affect new immigrants to start up their micro-businesses of the beauty industry are as follows: 1. Supports from family and friends from the same country: Although family support is the most important factor for starting a business, other advocates as like parents-in-law, husband, children, friends from the same country are also important. In this case, parents-in-law could help take care of children and housework and husband might play a role as a supporter. Moreover, friends from the same country could help to promote sales growth by sharing good reputation. 2. The ventures are be familiar with and interested in: Receiving vocational training about the ventures, knowing the operation of this industry and possessing of high level of interest and enthusiasm are also important. 3. To supplement the family income: The families of entrepreneurs of new immigrants are with higher life burden due to economic inferior and 4~6 common living households. 4. The demand of resources and support: Venture capital and management need to be conducted and assisted even though entrepreneurs are with high aspiration and energy reserves of labor. 5. Pursuit of the balance of work and family: It is one of the most goals that new immigrants want to pursue because of micro-business of the beauty industry with the characteristics lower entry barriers, flexible working hours and coping well with work and family.