Only 44 per cent of UK businesses last the first five years

While the number of entrepreneurial start-ups making it through five years is only slightly above half, some 75 per cent of British entrepreneurs have refused to lower their expectations of growth, Barclays findings show.

Despite the long hours and fewer holidays, 85 per cent of entrepreneurs are happier now than before they started their venture. Barclays’s infograhpic paints a resiliant image of business builders.
Entrepreneurs in numbers

Hunter Ruthven

Hunter was the Editor for GrowthBusiness.co.uk from 2012 to 2014, before moving on to Caspian Media Ltd to be Editor of Real Business. More by Hunter Ruthven