Stop looking for Startups ideas. Start noticing problems

Timing accounts for 42% of startup success. Here's what the data and the best founders reveal about finding the right idea at the right moment.

The biggest reason startups succeed isn’t the idea. It isn’t the team. It isn’t the funding. It’s timing.

Ideas are not important

Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, studied hundreds of startups and found that timing accounted for 42% of the difference between success and failure. The idea — the thing most founders obsess over — came in third.

Sam Altman …