Picture going up to a local pizza shop and saying, "How will you ever do well if you have no plans to scale to be a national chain?!" That's a lot of tech's attitude toward starting a business, and it's really quite silly when you compare it to other industries
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Is there a way to measure the failure rate of said modest return businesses? It's hard to gauge the risk unless someone is keeping stats on them. I'd love to know.
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Approximately 75% of VC-backed companies do not return investors money:https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443720204578004980476429190?mg=prod/accounts-wsj …
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I was asking for the failure rate of non-VC-backed, moderate return tech companies of the type
@sehurlburt and@wifelette run. Seems like it would be hard to measure -
It's more interesting to understand the ROI for a plausible investment. All companies "fail" eventually.
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By that measure, then I guess I'm asking for (but not expecting to find) what percentage of such businesses fail without yielding a positive ROI
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If they've taken no external investment, I guess the investment is measured as the opportunity cost of the salaries the founders have forgone
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I'd expect positive ROI is pretty good (at least from my own experience) but it seems real tough to measure.
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There is a significant amount of individual lenders that will fund moderate investment, more than you might think, it's just not an organized market. It's very bespoke amongst the HNW crowd.
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Which means if you're not in that crowd, good luck.
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