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What Is The Weaknesses Of Start Up

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Starting a business implies to perform value-creating activities. All these activities are connected to the different stakeholders, such as suppliers, consumers or even marketing channels. Michael Porter defined the value chain as a combination of all support and primary activities that take part into the creation of the product or service. (See appendix to have a deeper description of all the activities). Creating value comes with the discovery of an opportunity and the exploitation of it. Michael Porter “created value chain analysis as a means to organize and understand the customer-value-creating activities and processes within a company” (Price, 2011). The company focuses on its internal business activities that affect its costs and that …show more content…

They use it to assess their competitive advantage by analysing the environment in which they would evolve. Dismantling the value chain of the competitors will highlight their main weaknesses and thus where the start-up would be able to create value and build afterwards its own value chain. Start-ups use traditional companies to uncover opportunities from their weaknesses. If many weaknesses are identified it would then make sense to enter the market and to take advantage of them and offer a solution to solve them.
IE companies differentiate from other companies in the sense that they seek opportunities across national borders. They analyse and exploit these in order to create products and services with added-value for the customers, as well as creating value in the organization itself (Oviatt and McDougall, 2000). “A combination of innovative, proactive and risk-seeking behaviour”.
Nowadays, IE studies are not only limited to new ventures, but they also include large and older firms. Due to globalisation, as previously mentioned, firms seek opportunities abroad. It thus leads us to four different types of models based on the degree of internationalisation of the firm and time (Dorrenbacher, 2000) (see figure 5 and following explanations).
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the spatial concentration of activities within a region.
The second indicator relates to how long a company needs before entering a new country market.
Having an international focus right from the start, BGs have been attributed several definitions and characteristics over the years. Many authors got interest in the subjects and wrote about BG.
Rennie is the first one to use this term in 1993. He defines a BG firm as “a small firm that started to export two years after its creation and that generates 76% of its revenue with export” (Rennie, 1993). The main aspect is here the early stage of internationalisation with a focus on foreign sales.
Knight and Cavusgil (1996, 2004) define a BG according to how it will grow, i.e. how it will manage its resources on a global level, and be launched abroad in order to create value in a niche market. For their studies, they first focused on high technology companies, which are more represented (Knight and Cavusgil, 1996) and generalized it to all industries in 2004. A BG firm has to meet a few criteria to be called as such:
- internal capabilities to develop a business with its own resources and knowledge
- the ability to sustain innovation and create knowledge
- to have developed internal

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