It happens all the time and I'm beginning to feel like I have a "customer service bad luck charm" hanging around my neck. I go to the supermarket, and the checkout person spends more time talking to her coworker about how much she hates her job, than she spends thanking me for my business. I call a contractor to fix a problem with the roof, and …
Studying Start-ups
Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) follows nearly 5,000 businesses founded in 2004 and tracks them over their early years of operation. Here are some interesting results: More than a third of businesses (37 percent) had no revenue in their first year of operation while about 17 percent of businesses had profits in excess of $100,000. Just under 9 …