Condiciones Sistémicas para el Emprendimiento Dinámico

swim and other times emerge to the surface to move forward. Moreover, we cannot overlook
human beings, whose ability to move forward is absolutely certain. Note that although these
other animals are not as quick as gazelles, some are less fragile or more intelligent than them.
Among the different animals that can be found in an ‘imaginary safari’ into the world of young
and dynamic companies, textbook gazelles are not a common species. If we think about
real companies in the region, this category could include, for instance, the entrepreneurs
that launched an electronic sale-purchase platform at the regional level and after 10 years of
rapid growth had hired more than 1,000 employees. However, there are other species that,
even without showing that kind of quick growth pattern, are quite relevant within the dynamic
entrepreneurship world.
For example, the case of a startup that broke new ground in the world of information technology
security. After committing to the development of a highly innovative and complex product,
they discovered in their third year that the market needed simpler and less innovative products.
On its tenth anniversary, the company had 200 employees and had gone international.
Another aspect to take into account is the large number of new dynamic companies in the region
that do not reach the scales previously described as easily or quickly. For instance, a company that
develops, produces and sells a highly innovative machine for fruit harvesting, which only signed
its second client in its third year of life and only reached significant growth after its fourth year.
After 10 years, the company has become an innovative SME with growth potential, employing 60
people and exporting to sophisticated markets outside of this region. But its sales at the end of
their first year were the same as those of a micro-enterprise, and only five years later did it become
an SME, once it had managed to define its business identity and corporate strategy.
It is also possible to find cases in which companies reach sustained growth for longer periods,
as they grow at a more moderate pace. Such is the case of some Endeavor companies established
in certain Latin American countries.
Or the case of new companies that after a period of high growth tend to slow down due to new
organizational restrictions, but that once the restriction issues have been solved, continue to grow.
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