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Scott Shane has an interesting blog article on small business failure rates.
http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300113315/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Scott Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon III, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, in the Department of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
http://wsomfaculty.cwru.edu/shane/
Back in the mid to late 90's, there were a lot of IPOs for small as well as medium and large companies. Enthusiasm for IPOs diminished with the bursting of the dotcom and tech bubbles. That was followed by the collapse of Enron, Worldcomm and few other big companies.
http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300113315/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Figure 6.2 (p.99) from my [Shane's] book Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. The data come from a special tabulation by the Bureau of the Census produced for the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Scott Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon III, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, in the Department of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
http://wsomfaculty.cwru.edu/shane/
Back in the mid to late 90's, there were a lot of IPOs for small as well as medium and large companies. Enthusiasm for IPOs diminished with the bursting of the dotcom and tech bubbles. That was followed by the collapse of Enron, Worldcomm and few other big companies.