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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

An especially pungent comparison exists between the classically "safe" job of lawyering versus starting a new enterprise. By contrast, of 5,000 businesses started in 2004, almost 56% were still in business in 2010, despite suffering through a brutal economic downturn.