The market of business technology is developing. The companies require the tools that will enable them to manage their presence online, gather and process big data, automate the processes, communicate with one another, share the documents or handle their security online. Startups are helping more companies to find excellent solutions to such needs. Some startups already operate in this space—you’ve likely heard of or used them, especially if you work in an SME or large firm. How SaaS startups are dominating the ecosystem shows just how connected and influential this software network has become.
Platforms and their providers and programmers, collaborators, and users who collectively develop a complex SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution. The aim of the development of such network that consists of various applications and providers is to offer customers the opportunity to use the variety of integrated tools and instruments. Salesforce is an adequate instance of a SaaS ecosystem. Salesforce is a CRM platform that stimulated the development of the complicated network of various applications and providers around, which extend the original functionality and capabilities of the platform.
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It is a CRM platform that has incorporated sales, advertising and other functions of a business in the same platform. In the SaaS environment, the ecosystems have pertinence as far as a number of reasons. To start with, the SaaS ecosystems combine tools, which is why users can control various processes via a single interface. Secondly, through interlinking of products, developers develop functions within a system to deal with certain user needs. In addition, since the needs of a company can evolve, the company in question can replace the applications that are a part of the ecosystem.
Other pertinent ones without having to purchase several products acquired individually. Startup investments are not only beneficial as an earning source, but also needed to provide competitive economy and improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In spite of the competitive risks that it grapples with, European nations have developed booming environments of surging startups in areas like AI, renewable energies and biotechnology that present lucrative prospects to investors willing to diversify and make large amounts of returns. In Spain, there are startups of circular economy such.
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As Recover, business travel such as TravelPerk, oncological biotechnology such as Peptomyc, SaaS technology such as Typeform, and mobility and transportation such as Cabify, which have managed to attract funding and have established themselves in key positions. It is the sign of a startup ecosystem that is becoming more mature, with greater strength of its strategies, stronger institutional backing into promoting technological innovation, and key events to bring entrepreneurs and investors together, now including the Esade Entrepreneurship Summit to be organized in Barcelona on May 24 and 25.
The pattern is definite, startups are no longer a niche tool, they have now established themselves as strategic resources. Investment decision in this sphere means what? What are the important criteria? Answering these questions was Teresa Corrales, teaching fellow at Esade who has been a director of Executive Education Programs and an experienced expert in the field of finance, during one of the sessions which became available during Esade Live Experience a day when partners, candidates, and alumni had an opportunity to know the new campus of Madrid.
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Nowadays, there has been a counterflow in the trend of investment. In addition to the investment attractiveness, investing in startups enables asset diversification, promotes innovation (Lawton 212) (internal-external-shaped) and augments entrepreneurship in the context of the economic, business, and social impacts. In the case of both executive profiles and business angels, it also implies investing along the lines of trends changing major sectors.
The statistics proves this. In the Spanish case, the III Study on the Profitability of Capital Funds in Spain (EY, 2023) gives the figure of returns offered by investing in start-ups in Spain of 11.2%, compared to the Ibex 35 indices as well as to almost twice the profitability of real estate. A great rate of interest, but, as Teresa Corrales says, it means the taking of risks, pursuing the opportunities with discretion, proceeding with strategic vision and the development of a portfolio. Farewell to (mistaken) idea: investment in startups is not only an investment in technology.
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It is akin to projecting into the future, identifying the place where value is being created, and making a wager in terms of the models that are scalable to become efficient in them. There are also three important points that give us the possibility to view the viability and profitability of a start-up, besides its possibilities of innovations. The investor (and business angel in this case) actually has a more active role in this situation than one would think: they do not just supply capital but also access to their networks, experience, and legitimization. A modern investor does not have to be just a sponsor.
Of entrepreneurship; s/he turns into a creator of communities. Spotting a good investment opportunity does not only mean enthusiasm, but method and vision, as Teresa Corrales suggests. The potential startups have some common aspects, which can be determined. Further, the development logic that is, what is the business model, what entry barriers are to be considered has to be analyzed. These are pertinent questions in predicting the possibility of a project to convert innovation to profitability. Regarding the economic point of view, the business plan must show more than numbers.