Being an entrepreneur is more uncertain, more complex, more stressful, more pressured and less lucrative than regular corporate work. We know — despite the blood, sweat and tears invested — around 90% of entrepreneurial businesses will fail. This figure comes from a 2017 report by the UK Treasury, later confirmed by The Start-up Genome Project’s analysis of over 3,200 high-growth start-ups. Stateside statistics match. According to Harvard Business School cohort analysis, more than 90% of tech-centric, venture capital-backed start-ups fail.
