Startup Data Preliminaries: A Case Study of Users from Western Maharashtra
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The present paper dwells upon the awareness about startups, the support from funding agencies
and the role of library and information center in the use of data/information useful for undertaking
Startup initiatives of users from Western Maharashtra. The analysis reveals that, 32.78% of users
are aware of and working on startup project since last year. Amongst the various types of information
resources, search engines are the most frequently resource preferred by 26.22% of users with the
mean value of 3.39 followed by the prominent information resources like e-resources, print sources,
and online open access resources, etc. as the structural foundation backbone for innovative startup
projects. Amongst the preferred working sector, it is noticed that the majority traces towards Science
and Technology domain ((59.01%) than the rest of the faculties/subjects. Again, 65.57% of
respondents applied customer need and behavior strategy, followed by other strategies like an
experiment, practice, trial and error, uniqueness, feedback, marketing, discussion or interview,
assumption/confirmation of hypotheses, update, and data diplomacy etc. for their startup plans.
Further, 91.80% of respondents opined that after implementing a novel, idea, project, and software
it makes an impact on their information-seeking behavior. Again, 70.49% of users opined that
finance is a major problem in implementing an innovative idea/project as a part of startup data
preliminaries.
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
Information Services, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Startup, Startup Data