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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Consumer Services (B2C). Languishing businesses were counted as survivors.

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3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

These cyclical, risky businesses operate on the premise that we are going to experience an economic boom or that we are in the midst of one. The story, as many an AP English student can tell you, focuses on economic and familial hardship during the Great Depression told through a poor, victim-of-circumstance farming family from Oklahoma.