(’early-stage firm’ OR ’early-stage company’ OR ’high-tech venture’ OR ’high-tech ventures’ OR ’high-tech start-up’ OR ’high-tech start-ups’ OR ’high-tech startups’ OR ’high-tech startup’ OR ’start-up company’ OR ’start-up companies’ OR ’startup company’ OR ’startup companies’ OR ’software startup’ OR ’lean startup’ OR ’lean start-up’ OR ’lean startups’ OR ’software startups’ OR ’software packa...

Context: Startups are disrupting traditional markets and replacing wellestablished actors with their innovative products.To compete in this age of disruption, large and established companies cannot rely on traditional ways of advancement, which focus on cost efficiency, lead time reduction and quality improvement. Corporate management is now looking for possibilities to innovate like startups. ...

Typical management strategies proven to work in already established businesses do not work as expected in startups. Startups do not yet have a business model and product that they could focus on, but are still looking for a working business model. Lean Startup is a method for startup management that focuses on quick iteration and on fast learning to find an iterable business model. As a method,...

This position paper addresses the software engineering practices in startups. The focus of most software engineering research has been on established companies. However, startup technology companies have become important producers of innovative and software intensive products despite the fact that they are under severe time-to-market pressure. Given that software engineering is the core activit...