Supplementary Data: Raw interview data and NVivo11 analysis summary

Interview data on a sample of software startups focusing on the early stages of their evolution paths.

Summary of qualitative analysis of the data done with NVivo11 in a study focusing on the software startups from the viewpoints of resource-based-view and human capital theories. Human captital, defined as one type of resources in resource-based-view theory, is defined in existing research broadly as a set of capabilities, knowledge, skills, education, experience, and other similar human attributes, and seen as a source of economic growth at all levels from an individual to nations and the world.The qualitative analysis of the interview data was done to answer the following research questions: 1) What are the engineering-related capabilities necessary for creating a product in a software startup?, 2) What are the means to acquire the necessary capabilities?, and 3) What are the reasons for deploying different capability-acquiring means?

The findings of the analysis were used for drawing conclusions, how the established theories, resource-based-view and human capital theories, fit to the actual situations in software startups.