MyStartup: innovation management technology for dynamic and sustainable business models
Business Models, Tech Startup, Entrepreneur, Young Entrepreneurship
A great idea to tackle a real problem is a promise of a successful business model. However, transforming it into reality is a hard long way run. Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Scrum are included in a long list of valuable approaches that have emerged to support entrepreneurs during their journey. In this work, we investigate the process of selecting business methodologies under entrepreneurs’ perspective, focussing on tech young entrepreneurs. Our findings have pointed out that this particular kind of entrepreneur is very susceptible to get into technological traps, dedicating excessive effort to product development activities. We propose an integrated approach that targets this phenomenon, which we named active paralysis, to help entrepreneurs to identifying technological traps and work on guidelines to overcome it. We applied our approach in Brazilian tech startups of different areas and present in this the results we have achieved.