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Received: 2018-11-12  |  Accepted: 2019-01-25  |  Published: 2019-03-30

Title

Business model and team as preconditions of a start-up viability


Abstract

Start-ups are an attractive topic for research because they are a relatively new and very dynamic business form. They carry out original business ideas, provide a space for self-realization of independent personalities, bring extra earnings, but most of them fail. The aim of the research was to examine whether the business model and start-up team like two basic assumptions are really some reasons of the viability and later potential start-up success. The result of the research is a knowledge on the structure and functionality of the start-up business model and start-up team. The viability of the start-up had been measured in shape of its business performance. An intensity and structure of the relationships between performance of start-up and its business model and team should confirm its capability to survive and thrive. These relationships are modelled on the base of regression analysis. The research has largely confirmed the existence of desired relationships to a certain extent, but the effect of the studied preconditions is internally considerably differentiated.


Keywords

start-up, business model, business idea development, team, leader, performance


JEL classifications

M10 , G24


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/294


DOI


Pages

1404-1427


Funding

This research project of Business models and business strategies of start-ups (2015-2017) was supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) [grant number 1/0019/15].

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
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Authors

Slávik, Štefan
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Hagarová, Ráchel
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Ljudvigová, Ivana
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Zagoršek, Branislav
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia https://euba.sk
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

6


Number

3


Issue date

March 2019


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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