Skip to content
Digitopoly

Digitopoly

Competition in the Digital Age

Tag: AirBnB

Posted on March 28, 2011

The Missing Market for Failure

We are told that some large fraction (possibly 80 percent) of small, entrepreneurial businesses fail. The hard part is working out why. You may notice a restaurant has closed in your neighborhood. If it seemed popular, you wonder if the owner left for greener pastures or there was some hidden health issue no one had …

Continue reading "The Missing Market for Failure"

New Book

Recent Posts

  • The Digital Year in Review: 2025
  • Private Returns on Technology Adoption
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Jevons Paradox
  • Spillovers, Bottlenecks, and More Invention After Invention
  • Commercial and Scientific Prototypes

Authors

  • avigoldfarb
  • Joshua Gans
  • erikbrynjolfsson
  • jwaldfogumnedu
  • shanegreenstein
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Digitopoly
    • Join 164 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Digitopoly
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar