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Brazil is consolidating itself in the world of software startups, both by the strength of the market and by the innovation ecosystems that help these new companies to start and grow. In this chapter, we present the technical challenges that these software startups encounter. We share our experience at Tecnopuc, one specificSTP located in the south of Brazil, with more than 170 organizations, from which 90 are startups. We present a set of technical challenges that relate to the following steps in developing an MVP: requirements engineering, product prototyping, architectural design, and software testing. Based on the analysis of these challenges, we reflect on how innovation ecosystems such as science and technology parks (STP) could help startups on addressing the challenges identified.
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This work is partially funded by FAPERGS (17/2551-0001/205-4) and CNPq.
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Pompermaier, L., Prikladnicki, R. (2020). Brazilian Startups and the Current Software Engineering Challenges: The Case of Tecnopuc. In: Nguyen-Duc, A., Münch, J., Prikladnicki, R., Wang, X., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Fundamentals of Software Startups. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35983-6_20
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