It is found that what perceived as biggest challenges by software startups do vary across different life cycle stages, even though its significance decreases when the learning focuses of the startups move from problem to solution and their products mature.
Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa et al.· International Conference on...· 62 citations· ⚡6
Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models.
M. Unterkalmsteiner, P. Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· e-Informatica Software Engin...· 157 citations· ⚡17
A case study of a large software company was conducted to examine how a new product was developed through the internal startup effort and struggled to achieve the desired outcomes set by the management, and the conceptual framework was developed into a Lean startup-enabled new product development model for large softwa...
Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· EUROMICRO Conference on Soft...· 11 citations· ⚡1
It is found that roles of MVPs in startups were not fully aware by entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs should consider a systematic approach to fully explore the value of MVP, as a multiple facet product (MFP).
Anh Nguyen-Duc, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 93 citations· ⚡9
Reach audiences
Advertise in front of researchers, engineers, and readers.
This study conducts a case survey study based on the secondary data of the major pivots happened in 49 software startups, and demonstrates that customer need pivot is the most common among all pivot types.
Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen-Duc et al.· Empirical Software Engineeri...· 127 citations· ⚡15
The results are packaged in the Greenfield Startup Model (GSM), which explains the priority of startups to release the product as quickly as possible, and the need to shorten time-to-market, by speeding up the development through low-precision engineering activities.
Carmine Giardino, Nicolò Paternoster, M. Unterkalmsteiner et al.· IEEE Transactions on Softwar...· 178 citations· ⚡14
The initial findings show that different software startups make different types of pivots related to business and technology during their product development life cycle, which are triggered by various factors including negative customer feedback.
Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, A. Duc et al.· International Conference on...· 29 citations· ⚡4
This paper reports a study where realism was combined with control over certain context and process factors to identify the most important relationships among process, context and outcome.
P. Abrahamsson, Andreas Jedlitschka, A. Duc et al.· Lecture Notes in Computer Sc...· 3 citations
It is proposed that early contract-based activities could be transformed into a long-term partnership by adopting a startup boundary spanner's role, establishing an inter-personal relationship and maintaining a mutual commitment.
Anh Nguyen-Duc, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 9 citations· ⚡2
The results indicate that software developers are a slightly happy population, but the need for limiting the unhappiness of developers remains, and 219 factors representing causes of unhappiness while developing software are identified.
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· International Conference on...· 84 citations· ⚡6
The behaviour theory of entrepreneurial firms is applied to understand the root-cause of some software startup challenges and implies that effectual entrepreneurial processes might require a more suitable product development approach than the current state-of-practice.
A. Duc, Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert et al.· International Conference on...· 16 citations
This paper will focus on how to build and set up a test harness to gather empirical data from Companies and how to store these data together with demographical and financial data from the PROFF-portal in the Entrepreneurial Data Warehouse (from now called the EDW).
Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert, Anh Nguyen-Duc et al.· International Conference on...· 4 citations
A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 15, 2026
Zero-knowledge proofs can verify computing results without rerunning workloads or exposing sensitive data. Magnetar helps bring them into the mainstream with support for standard programming languages, major speed gains, and quantum-resistant security. The post Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 8, 2026
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.
We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads.
See our Cookie Policy.