# The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2015
- Speaker: Bill Gross
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_start_ups_succeed)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Bill Gross has founded a lot of start-ups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others -- and surprised even him.

## Lectures

1. [The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_start_ups_succeed/66d6583e1a0d), 7 min (TED's player)