New podcast: Predicting startup success
Can we identify the signals of startup success before the outcome becomes obvious?
A new podcast from Cambridge Judge Business School and the TUM Chair for Strategy and Organisation explores one of entrepreneurship’s most enduring questions.
About the podcast
Predicting Startup Success brings together leading researchers, investors, entrepreneurs and venture builders to explore one of the most challenging questions in entrepreneurship: why do some ventures succeed while others struggle?
Across 8 episodes, guests examine what teams, data, capital, ecosystems, failure and deep technology can, and cannot, tell us about a startup’s future.
Drawing on academic research and real-world experience, the series separates hype from evidence and explores how better decisions are made under uncertainty.
About the hosts
Dr Chris Coleridge
Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Isabell Welpe
Technical University of Munich
Professor Theresa Treffers
Technical University of Munich
Episodes
View on other channels: Amazon | Apple | Spotify.
View on other channels: Amazon | Apple | Spotify.
Want to listen to more?
The next set of episodes will be released later this month.
Featured guests
Taylor Bench
Managing Partner, Summit Venture Studio
Prof. Dr. Nicola Breugst
Entrepreneurial Behavior, TUM School of Management
Prof. Dr. Reiner Braun
Entrepreneurial Finance, TUM School of Management
Dr. David Cleevely
Entrepreneur, investor and Cambridge ecosystem builder
Prof. Dr. Matthew Grimes
Entrepreneurship, Cambridge Judge Business School
Prof. Dr. Ramana Nanda
Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College London
Prof. Dr. Holger Patzelt
Entrepreneurship, TUM School of Management
Dr. Amir Sani
Artificial intelligence and private-markets expert
The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School
Entrepreneurship sits at the heart of the Cambridge Judge Business School mission to develop responsible leaders who create impact in business and society.
The Entrepreneurship Centre brings together founders, investors, researchers and innovators to explore new ideas, build entrepreneurial capability and support venture creation, from first concept through to scale-up.
Through its programmes, events, research and engagement with the wider Cambridge ecosystem, the Centre helps turn knowledge into action and ambition into impact.
Latest insights from the series
Entrepreneurship and innovation
Episode 1: Looking beyond the hype | Predicting Startup Success podcast
In the first episode of the Predicting Startup Success podcast, Chris Coleridge speaks to Matthew Grimes about why startup success is so difficult to predict, what hype can and cannot tell investors, and which signals may offer stronger evidence of progress.
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