Internal Factors that Stimulates Business Startups in Southern Nigeria

Facebook Lessons for E-Business Startups

This paper addresses the fundamental requirements for starting an online business. It covers the process of ideation, conceptualization, formulation, and implementation of new venture ideas on the Web. Using Facebook as an illustrative example, we learn how to turn an idea into a successful electronic business and to execute a business plan with IT skills, management expertise, a good entrepren...

Critical mass measurement models for startups from agricultural business

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the existing agent simulation models for measurement of the critical mass and its categorization.

When Do Startups That Exploit Patented Academic Knowledge Survive?

Researchers have generally suggested that new technology firms should exploit radical technologies with broad scope patents to compete with established firms, implying that new firms founded to exploit university inventions will be more likely to survive in all industries if they possess these attributes. However, the existing empirical evidence indicates that the effectiveness of these two dim...

Kaposi sarcoma in calabar, southern Nigeria.

OBJECTIVES There has been an increase in the prevalence of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) with the emergence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). METHODS Patients with histologic diagnosis of KS seen in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar between January 2007 and December 2008 were studied. Diagnosis of HIV was based on enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS In total, 15...

Startups That Seek to “Disrupt” Get More Funding Than Those That Seek to “Build”