A Study Exploring How Startup Accelerators to Reduce the Risk of Business Failure

• Main Authors: Chen, Hung-Sheng, 陳宏昇
• Other Authors: Chu, Po-Young
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gp9w5p

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院管理科學學程 === 107 === With the advancement of technology, the industrial form has gradually evolved. Past successful business models would not be sustainable in different environment or emerging industries. Therefore, Startups need to continuously invest their efforts of learning, through continuous improvement to establish a suitable business models for fulfilling new market demand. As many startups spend time to accumulate experience to find a suitable business model, the management team of startup accelerator could provide the counseling in the process. The accelerators could be a platform for experience sharing that can significantly reduce the resource and time to avoid non- necessary business failures. This research first collects the factors contributing to the startup failures, then classify these factors into five categories according to the SHELL model supported with relevant business management theories to explain how these factors have caused a startup to failure. By selecting global successful startup accelerators to discuss what the accelerating programs provided are designed to mitigate the five categories of factors to avoid failures.