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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95

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Date	2015-07-20 11:25 -0700
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Subject	Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 12:46:39 PM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> Wrong.  Big businesses start out big, either via venture capital or by
> being spun off from an even larger business.

Could you give some examples of large businesses starting out from day one as big from venture capital?  (Not counting a large business from acquisitions and mergers).

All the big businesses I can think of had their origins as tiny (excepting M&A), such as a pushcart peddlar evolving into a department store, or modest, such as Hollerith's machines evolving into IBM.

> 90% of small businesses fail within the first year due to inadequate
> capitalization; few of the rest grow past 5 employees (usually the
> owner's family), and vanishingly few grow past 50 employees.  This has
> _nothing_ to do with tax policy or "job-killing regulations".

I thought it was 50%.  But in any event, there are a multitude of reasons that a small business fails, inadequate capitalization is only one of many.  Sometimes the business plan was too optimistic--expected sales do not materialize or goods/raw materials cost more than expected.  Often times the owners do not know what they are doing, and as such, alienate customers and work very inefficiently.  

Amazingly, a lot of people start a small business thinking "how hard can it be?", without understanding the basics of whatever they're selling.

A lot of "successful" small business people are only making a modest living out of it.  On a per hour basis, many would be earning more if they worked at a job.  Some still run a business because being independent, despite the headaches, it's preferable to them than working for someone else (and the headaches of that).

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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-15 19:16 -0500
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-16 12:47 -0500
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