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BUSINESS INCUBATION
Startups are rooted in innovation, addressing the deficiencies of existing products or creating
entirely new categories of goods and services, thereby disrupting entrenched ways of thinking
and doing business for entire industries. That’s why many startups are known within their
respective industries as “disruptors.”
You may be most familiar with startups in Big Tech—think Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix,
Google, collectively known as FAANG stocks—but even companies like We Work, Peloton and
Beyond Meat are considered startups.
How to define a start-up
With all of the above taken into consideration, it’s worth pointing out that change is
central to the start-up business meaning. There’s a sense of transition and a temporary
nature to it, as in time a start-up may expand or be bought by another company.
Therefore, it’s difficult to say a start-up is definitively one thing or another, except for
highlighting that the ability to change and be different is the essence of a start-up.
The energy, excitement and sense of possibility runs throughout start-ups, as well as a
feeling that anything could happen.
One of the startup's first tasks is raising a substantial amount of money to further
develop the product. To do that, they have to make a strong argument, if not a
prototype, that supports their claim that their idea is truly new or a great improvement
to something on the market.
what are those key principles?
Fast-paced
Founders
Funding
Global view
Growth
Limitations
New
Problem-solving
Registered business
Team culture
Uncertainty
Business Incubation- what it is?
Business incubation is a unique and highly flexible combination of business
development processes, infrastructure and people designed to nurture new and small
businesses by helping them to survive and grow through the difficult and vulnerable
The goal of incubators is to increase the chance that a start-up will succeed, and
shorten the time and reduce the cost of establishing and growing its business.
Role of Business Incubation
Business incubation has been identified as a means of meeting a variety of economic and
socioeconomic policy needs, which may include
• Technology commercialization
•Community revitalization
About Business Incubators
Incubation is a dynamic process of business development.
• Incubators provide:
• Infrastructural support i.e. office space, meeting room
• Platform to do networking
• Management assistance