5 Reasons Small Businesses Fail In Their First Year

Benjamin Pimentel, NerdWallet.com
Thu, 05/28/2015 - 2:28pm

.article__image { visibility: hidden; display: none; } Alexey Sokolin: Businesses sometimes “focus too much on infrastructure and inventory.” Starting a small business is tough, but growing one — or just keeping it afloat — is even harder. Even though more than 500,000 small businesses are created each year in the U.S., only half of them survive past their fifth year, according to the U.S.

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