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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254670403321

Autore

Mahroum Sami

Titolo

Black Swan Start-ups : Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places / / by Sami Mahroum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137577276

1137577274

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 254 p. 3 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

658.421

Soggetti

New business enterprises

Venture capital

Small business

Industrial organization

Telemarketing

Internet marketing

Technological innovations

Business information services

Start-Ups and Venture Capital

Small Business

Organization

Digital Marketing

Innovation and Technology Management

IT in Business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores startups that have thrived against the odds in places where startup success was deemed to be unlikely. Discussing a number of technology startups from around the world that have succeeded without state backing nor local venture and seed capital, Black Swan Start Ups provides unique insights into unsung models of



success beyond the two dominant narratives of Asia’s ‘Tiger Economies’ and America’s Silicon Valley miracle. The author describes these stories of success as ‘black swan events’ and ascribes their achievements to the ability of entrepreneurs to leverage the ‘place surplus’ of their locations, while building connections to support networks outside their immediate geographies. Including case studies such as Skype in Estonia, SoundCloud in Germany and Bayt.Com in Dubai, this insightful book gives a holistic and wide-ranging view of how technology startups have, and can, succeed in less likely places. .