Abstract
Despite their popularity and growth, startups still face many challenges to keep survived in highly dynamic and turbulent environments. With limited time and resources, they must develop products or services that solve real problems. Today, various software tools have been provided to help entrepreneurs to tackle these challenges and speed up their processes. However, how to effectively find and use these tools are not clearly understood either by entrepreneurs or in literature. The purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to apply design science principles to develop a software tool portal to support the startup processes. The initial results reveal the need of tool recommendation as part of software the portal for entrepreneurs to find the right tools effectively in order to meet their specific needs.