Small businesses are defined as 1-500 employees - I suspect that includes a fair range of company types. Lumping them together as a single thing strikes me as a bit disingenuous.
This shows all business types following roughly the same trend. 'services' [which would include software and property management] have the lowest 5 yr survival rate at 36% and mining the highest at > 50%.
This is data is from the 2010 census, examining businesses started in 2005 - likely a different methodology than the SBA used. This which probably accounts for the discrepancy from my SBA stats in the original post.
A quick search turned this up:
http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/09/failure-rates-by-sector-th...
This shows all business types following roughly the same trend. 'services' [which would include software and property management] have the lowest 5 yr survival rate at 36% and mining the highest at > 50%.
This is data is from the 2010 census, examining businesses started in 2005 - likely a different methodology than the SBA used. This which probably accounts for the discrepancy from my SBA stats in the original post.