Synonyms
Age zero firm; Dotcoms; Gazelle
A startup company is a company that is in the first stage of its operations, mainly in the fields of information technology. The products, systems, or services (PSS) involved in those operations aim at satisfying needs in consumption as well as in production goods sectors. In the late 1970s, the most common type of startup company is producing electronic devices such as microprocessors and digitalized circuits (hardware). Then, in the late 1980s, appear startup companies producing standardized programs and operating systems (software). In the late 1990s, hardware and software converge through the Internet into a specific pattern of companies known as “dotcom” companies. From then on, the concept of startup company becomes widely used to name those specific structures.
Particularly, the financing is rather innovative. Special money named seed capital is the capital used for financing projects during their startup phase, before production...
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Wielezynski, M. (2020). Startup. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15347-6_246
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