Embrace failure to start up success

A Hybrid Business Success Versus Failure Classification Prediction Model: A Case of Iranian Accelerated Start-ups

The purpose of this study is to reduce the uncertainty of early stage startups success prediction and filling the gap of previous studies in the field, by identifying and evaluating the success variables and developing a novel business success failure (S/F) data mining classification prediction model for Iranian start-ups. For this purpose, the paper is seeking to extend Bill Gross and Robert L...

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with female first hires are more successful and stay longer in...

Gender Differences in Business Success of German Start-up Firms

On Our Failure to Embrace Advances in Software Technology

My answer to this question is “far less than it should”. While I am aware of no sound statistical basis for this answer, observation of practice has convinced me that the potential of many advances is not being realized. In fact, my conclusion is that we are failing to embrace advances in software technology to a significant degree. The impact of this state of affairs is serious, and it needs t...

Studying the process of transformation of the start-up to the academic spin off

At todaychr('39')s universities, we are witnessing the emergence of startup companies by the startup teams by student and academic teams; unfortunately, most startups face barriers to success. On the one hand, one of the new topics entering the fourth-generation universities and can be a good target for the future of the startups; the existence of academic spin-offs, centered around scholars...