Post on 19-Jul-2015
There were 514,000 new business owners in 2012
…but half of all businesses fail within five years
− U.S. Bureau of Labor StaKsKcs
How to predict the success of early-‐stage startups?
Random forest classifier • Train/validate: 2+ year-‐old startups (n = 4565) • Predict: new startups (n = 1760) Numerical features • expansion rate • total pre-‐series A funding Categorical features • industries • business models • locaHon