Quote from: WillyAp on September 28, 2025, 01:03:14 PM

Shareholder values was declared out dated in 2019 Forbes published an article:

Why Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Finally Dying

Is the start up surge a result of that?

To have failed is an advantage:

  

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There are more than 150 million startups worldwide, of which 1.14 million startups are in the United States.
    Global venture funding totaled $91 billion in Q2 2025.
    1,400 startups globally hold the unicorn badge.
    SpaceX is the most successful startup with $350 billion valuation.
    The global startup failure rate is 90%.
    First-time founders have a startup success rate of 18%.
    Business owners who failed in the past have a slightly higher startup success rate of 20%.
    One-third of the startups fail due to the lack of product demand.
    The average cost of starting a business is $40,000.

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Only 10% To 20% Of The Startups Become Successful In The Long Run
First-time business owners have a success rate of 18%. While, the business owners who failed in the past have a slightly higher startup success rate.
On the other hand, business owners who have had a successful startup in the past have a success rate of around 30%.
Most successful startup owners claim they have the relevant qualifications and experience to run their own business.

Who volunteers some input?

These figures are just strange and dramatizations. I don't believe you can call "Space X" a startup at this point, it is a maturing business with valuable assets and plenty of long term contracts. Which makes me question the rest of the statistics too. The fact that America only has half a percent of the worlds start up companies actually seems rather low, as they are usually pioneering in this area. also, what is the definition of a start up in use? Is it just a business that is under a year old? I'd hazard that most people here might associate startups with IT, because you can have services like a barbers that will fail for a bunch of different reasons to a software company. It feels like too broad a scope to give an insightful feedback, unless you define it a bit better.

These figures are just strange and dramatizations. I don't believe you can call "Space X" a startup at this point, it is a maturing business with valuable assets and plenty of long term contracts. Which makes me question the rest of the statistics too. The fact that America only has half a percent of the worlds start up companies actually seems rather low, as they are usually pioneering in this area. also, what is the definition of a start up in use? Is it just a business that is under a year old? I'd hazard that most people associate startups with IT, because you can have services like a barbers that will fail for a bunch of different reasons to a software company. It feels like too broad a scope to give an insightful feedback.