Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by mixmax on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:21PM
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Can you point to a better resource or study?
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Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by pg on Monday September 21, 2009 @01:51PM
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I don't know of any. The problem is not with the Kauffman foundation study's data, as far as I know. The problem is all these articles that describe the data as surprising, when most of the surprise is due to confusing startups with small companies generally.
Re:Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
by startingup on Monday September 21, 2009 @05:55PM
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I am not sure I am hot on the startup vs small company distinction, because there exist so many examples of cross-overs. First, there are a lot of tech "startups" (meeting pg's definition) that have preferred to stay small, becoming "lifestyle businesses" as the pejorative term has it (no, it is not my preferred term!). I bet I can think of many that started out as startups, but would not meet pg's definition of startup anymore; there may even be a few YC-backed companies in that list. The opposite also occurs and has occurred, a non-scalable-model based small business morphing into a scalable company.
At some level, all taxonomies break down, but startup vs small business taxonomy isn't very strong to begin with.