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October 30, 2004

Small business survival rates (again)

My dad wanted to know survival rates for a company's first five years. The best data I could find comes from David Birch, who seems to be relatively respectable. This is originally from USAToday.com.

New business survival rate

So the five-year survival rate is about 50%.

Posted by sam at 02:53 PM