Comments on: Small Business Failure Rate: 9 out of 10? http://smallbusinessplanned.com/information/small-business-failure-rate-9-out-of-10/ Tue, 15 May 2012 09:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan Neumann, Agile Coach http://smallbusinessplanned.com/information/small-business-failure-rate-9-out-of-10/#comment-4468 Dan Neumann, Agile Coach Tue, 24 May 2011 01:02:19 +0000 http://smallbusinessplanned.com/?p=248#comment-4468 I am working on a presentation about Lean principles for solo entrepreneurs. While seeking a source for the extremely high rate of startup businesses, I found your blog. Thanks for providing the source information for your statistics and graph. I don't recall the high rate of failure ever referencing its source. Your information seems more credible. I am working on a presentation about Lean principles for solo entrepreneurs. While seeking a source for the extremely high rate of startup businesses, I found your blog. Thanks for providing the source information for your statistics and graph. I don’t recall the high rate of failure ever referencing its source. Your information seems more credible.

]]> By: Piano Lover http://smallbusinessplanned.com/information/small-business-failure-rate-9-out-of-10/#comment-4467 Piano Lover Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:43:03 +0000 http://smallbusinessplanned.com/?p=248#comment-4467 Hi David, Loved your article. It is really disappointing to hear all the time the scare tactics that a lot of business people and speakers use to suggest that most small businesses will fail. As your article has pointed out the numbers are a lot less than often projected and the failure rate of businesses is closer to 3/10, which is a lot more reassuring. .-= Piano Lover´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.pianoforbeginnersonline.com/piano-stairs/" rel="nofollow">Piano Stairs</a> =-. Hi David, Loved your article. It is really disappointing to hear all the time the scare tactics that a lot of business people and speakers use to suggest that most small businesses will fail. As your article has pointed out the numbers are a lot less than often projected and the failure rate of businesses is closer to 3/10, which is a lot more reassuring.
.-= Piano Lover´s last blog ..Piano Stairs =-.

]]> By: sharon http://smallbusinessplanned.com/information/small-business-failure-rate-9-out-of-10/#comment-4466 sharon Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:20:06 +0000 http://smallbusinessplanned.com/?p=248#comment-4466 This is a nice piece of work depending on the objective. Semantically, I would concur with the results. Reasonably, I would not, though would concur that 9 out of 10 failures may be wrong. How about phrasing the question in this manner, which, to me, is more at issue: How many businesses sustain after x years? You see, if I am a customer, there really isn't much of a substitute for stability (if there is quality and good pricing inherent.) The lack of stability in small business, as in other factions of our lives, is NOT a good thing. It creates a lot of excess 'spinning', restart, etc...none of which bode well for 'productivity' (something the world views as important and we are grossly missing.) So, while I'm glad we all 'feel better', the fact is the price of our good feelings is often not a very 'effective' way for us to grow a strong economy. We are attacking the 'wall street' and government for not sustaining performance or growth over a period of hundreds of years. Where do they get their employees? And how long can we sustain on our own? Isn't that the real question? I am working hard to improve this sustainability, for us all, but we have to first quit using semantics to cover a real 'issue' for this country. This is a nice piece of work depending on the objective. Semantically, I would concur with the results. Reasonably, I would not, though would concur that 9 out of 10 failures may be wrong. How about phrasing the question in this manner, which, to me, is more at issue: How many businesses sustain after x years? You see, if I am a customer, there really isn’t much of a substitute for stability (if there is quality and good pricing inherent.) The lack of stability in small business, as in other factions of our lives, is NOT a good thing. It creates a lot of excess ‘spinning’, restart, etc…none of which bode well for ‘productivity’ (something the world views as important and we are grossly missing.)
So, while I’m glad we all ‘feel better’, the fact is the price of our good feelings is often not a very ‘effective’ way for us to grow a strong economy.

We are attacking the ‘wall street’ and government for not sustaining performance or growth over a period of hundreds of years. Where do they get their employees? And how long can we sustain on our own? Isn’t that the real question?

I am working hard to improve this sustainability, for us all, but we have to first quit using semantics to cover a real ‘issue’ for this country.

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