The Single Biggest Reason Why Start Up Succeed
The Single Biggest Reason Why Start Up Succeed
The Single Biggest Reason Why Start Up Succeed
By Bil Gross
What factors actually matters in order to make a company success ?
I believe that the start-ups organisation is the greatest form to make world a better place.
If you take a group of people with the right good insentive and organize them in the start-up
you can unlock human pottential in away never before possible. And you get the to achieve
unbelieveble things.
But the question now is why start-up organisation is so great but why so many fail ?
So what actually matter the most for start-up to become successful and what is the different
between the successful start-up and the failure one.
So with all over the experience that his have in business, he found out that there is a 5
Essential Elements that Lead to Success, there is :
1. Ideas
The ideas was everything. It became a fuel in a start-up organization and also motivate all of
the team member to think creatively and innovative in order to grown up a brilliant idea that
can be execute for the impact of the organization.
2. Team
When you work as a team, it can open many different path of opportunities and can achieve
the target or the goals in the start-ups organization fastest than before. It also can bring a
more scalable impact that can the organization bring for the customer. The execution,
adaptability, sometimes that matter even more than the idea. So much about the team
execution is it an ability to adapt to getting punch in the face by the customer (the customer is
the true reality).
3. Business Model
There’s a company that have a clear path generating customer revenue. Business model is the
frameworks of the company that became the mechanism of system work in the company that
can impact for the business revenue itself.
4. Funding
5. Timing
Timing is the one of the essential thing in a start-up that have play a role as the luck way.
Sometimes there is a lot of start-ups that finally ending up become success is because they
got a right idea to solve a massive problems that happening with the right timing at that time,
and also with the good execution and also the great team member that can support the leader
to achieve what is the goals of the company. With the great timing plus the good execution in
can brings a vision into reality.
Based on the research that Bill Gross doing in order to know what is the matter factor to a
start-ups organization success, he found out a very eye opening data. Basically the research
that his doing is by comparing a certain successful start-ups companies (airnb, Instagram,
Uber, YouTube, LinkedIn) and a certain failure start-ups companies (WebVan, kozmo,
pets.com, flooz, friendster) with using the 5 essential elements in the upside. This are the
result of his research in a data :
1. Timing
Timing accounted for 42% of the difference between the success and the failure start-ups
company.
2. Team/Execution
Team/Execution accounted for 32% of the difference between the success and the failure
start-ups company.
Idea accounted for 28% of the difference between the success and the failure start-ups
company.
4. Business Model
Business Model accounted for 24% of the difference between the success and the failure
start-ups company.
5. Funding
Funding accounted for 14% of the difference between the success and the failure start-ups
company.
From the data in upside about the top factors that matters a lot for a start-ups company
success, timing is the number one factor that matter for a start-ups company became success.
It means that if a founder found a great idea and execute it in the right time it can be very
impactful to contribute for the start-up company success.