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According to http://www.moyak.com/papers/small-business-statistics.html there are somewhere in the 572,900 range of new businesses started every year and about 150 million worldwide. Many of these businesses will not last through their first year and will fail, especially restaurants.
The http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/us-business-start-ups-dro_n_423505.html says that in 2009 new businesses in the United States declined by 24 percent. This site reiterates that the economic downturn has hurt new business start-ups. The 2010 outlook was not any better.
There were 627,200 new business start-ups in 2008 according to SCORE at http://www.score.org/small_biz_stats.html. The failure rate was 595,600 where the new business closed. There were 43,546 that closed due to bankruptcy. Also discussed at: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2010/07/startup_activity_at_record_low_challenger.html
There are several business and government sites that can be helpful and provide additional information on statistics and business. Some of them are:
http://www.business.gov/
http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/business-dynamic-statistics.aspx
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/index.html
The http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/us-business-start-ups-dro_n_423505.html says that in 2009 new businesses in the United States declined by 24 percent. This site reiterates that the economic downturn has hurt new business start-ups. The 2010 outlook was not any better.
There were 627,200 new business start-ups in 2008 according to SCORE at http://www.score.org/small_biz_stats.html. The failure rate was 595,600 where the new business closed. There were 43,546 that closed due to bankruptcy. Also discussed at: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2010/07/startup_activity_at_record_low_challenger.html
There are several business and government sites that can be helpful and provide additional information on statistics and business. Some of them are:
http://www.business.gov/
http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/business-dynamic-statistics.aspx
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/index.html
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