Digital Startups Accelerators: Characteristics and Evolution Trends

234 Pages·2017·2.42 MB·English

by  André Águeda

Ana Clara Caleiro Coelho de Carvalho
Licenciada em Ciências da Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Digital Startups Accelerators:
Characteristics and Evolution Trends

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Orientador: Professor António Grilo, Professor Auxiliar com

Agregação, FCT-UNL

Setembro de 2016
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Ana Clara Caleiro Coelho de Carvalho
Licenciada em Ciências da Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Digital Startups Accelerators:
Characteristics and Evolution Trends

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Orientador: Professor António Grilo, Professor Auxiliar com Agregação, FCT-UNL

Setembro de 2016

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Digital Startups Accelerators: Characteristics and Evolution
Trends

Copyright:
Ana Clara Caleiro Coelho de Carvalho, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova
de Lisboa
A Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia e a Universidade Nova de Lisboa têm o direito, perpétuo e sem
limites geográficos, de arquivar e publicar esta dissertação através de exemplares impressos
reproduzidos em papel ou de forma digital, ou por qualquer outro meio conhecido ou que venha a ser
inventado, e de a divulgar através de repositórios científicos e de admitir a sua cópia e distribuição com
objetivos educacionais ou de investigação, não comerciais, desde que seja dado crédito ao autor e editor.
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Dedicated to my aunt Manuela and grandmother Júlia
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Acknowledgments

Some people have been most helpful during the development of this master dissertation and I would like
to thank them in a very special way.
To my supervisor, Professor António Grilo, I would like to thank for his help, support, guidance and
availability during the development of this thesis.
To Professor Aneesh Zutshi and Professor Joaquim Pina, for their support throughout the entire time.
To Beta-i team, I would like to thank for having welcomed me into the company and having helped
during my process of understanding the accelerator sector.
To my parents, Clara and António, I would like to thank for always having supported me and for having
believed in me ever since I was a little child. My accomplishments are yours too, because it is due to
both of you that I have become the person I am today.
To my cousin Telma, I would like to thank for her friendship and support.
To my dearest friends Francisco, João, Jessica, Maria, Matilde, Mariana, Beatriz, Joana and Susana, I
would like to thank for cheering me up in the bad times and making me laugh until my stomach hurts.
To Professor Ayana Mateus, whom I met when I had ‘Probabilidades e Estatística’, I would like to thank
for her friendship and for always having been nice to me ever since the first class.
To Professor Ruy Costa, I would like to thank for having given me access to documents related to
statistical analysis.
Finally, I would like to dedicate this dissertation to two very special people who will always have a
special place in my heart: my aunt Manuela and my grandmother Júlia. I am sad they are no longer here,
but I am sure they would be extremely proud of me at this important moment of my life and they would
love to read this dissertation, just as they used to read the stories I wrote as a child.

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