  Most countries across the globe identify technology-based start-ups as a
driving force for job creation, economic growth and national development, and a
critical tool for economic sustenance during pandemic crises like covid-19.
However, its emergence are been argued to be problematic. Especially in a
developing economy like Nigeria, where tech start-up founders are faced with
diverse form of constraints and environmental uncertainties. Extant literature
indicated that studies are been conducted to explain tech start-up emergence.
However, such studies are fragmented with findings that are determinants to
tech start-up emergence, with several determinants studied in isolation, and
the emergence as linear and unidimensional events. Consequently, neglecting
multi-dimensional perspective, which aggregate the dimensions of events
characterizing tech start-up emergence. Given the iterative, event-based
process, and interactive-dependent nature of tech start-up ventures to create
activity-based products/services in an open, uncertain, nonlinear and dynamic
environment, we argue that little are been known about tech start-up emergence.
Thus, by drawing from synthesize literature review, activity theory, and
exploratory case study design we identify opportunity discovery and selection;
team formation and domain consensus; bootstrapping; minimum viable product
development and market experimentation feedback as interdependent
multi-dimensional events constituting tech start-up emergence in Nigerian tech
start-up ecosystem.
