Use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict The Business Success or Failure of Start-Up Firms

There is a great interest to know if a new company will be able to survive or not. Investors use different tools to evaluate the survival capabilities of middle-aged companies but there is not any tool for start-up ones. Most of the tools are based on regression models and in quantitative variables. Nevertheless, qualitative variables which measure the company way of work and the manager skills can be considered as important as quantitative ones.