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Market-Entry Strategies Of Startup Owners, Evgeny Tsaplin
Market-Entry Strategies Of Startup Owners, Evgeny Tsaplin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Russia's startups fail at high rates. The purpose of this multiple case study was to understand the market-entry strategies used by accelerated startup managers to succeed in business longer than the first 3 years. The target population for this study was 3 startup owners who completed an acceleration program from the Internet Initiatives Development Fund and continued to operate businesses that generated revenue. The participants in the study were located in 3 different cities in Russia: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Tomsk. The conceptual framework for the study was Raheem and Akhuemonkhan's theory of enterprise development and von Bertalanffy's general system …
Effective Strategies Small Retail Leaders Use To Engage Employees, Dr. Janet Lynn Deskins
Effective Strategies Small Retail Leaders Use To Engage Employees, Dr. Janet Lynn Deskins
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Research suggests that 70% of North American employees are disengaged in the workplace. Some small retail managers lack strategies for engaging employees. Using the employee engagement framework, the purpose of this descriptive case study was to explore successful strategies that small retail managers use to engage employees. The target population was small retail leaders, purposefully selected because of their success with engaging employees at an Orlando, Florida, company. Data collection was through face-to-face interviews with 5 leaders; and a review of archived organizational documents, including company memorandums, central email software, and online customer reviews through social media websites such as …
Marketing Strategies Of Mobile Game Application Entrepreneurs, Talaya Waller
Marketing Strategies Of Mobile Game Application Entrepreneurs, Talaya Waller
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Mobile game application entrepreneurs can offer many benefits to the U.S. economy; however, 80% of the entrepreneurs in this study stated that marketing their mobile applications was a major business challenge. Successful strategies that entrepreneurs have used to overcome their mobile game application marketing challenges may be beneficial to other entrepreneurs. Based on Schumpeter's theory of economic development and new value creation of technological innovation, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the strategies that entrepreneurs have used to market their mobile game application development businesses successfully. Twenty mobile game application entrepreneurs from northern California, who successfully sustained …