You can be "less risky" than a restaurant while still having dismal chances of success though. Nobody who starts a business expects that it'll be bankrupt withi

You can be "less risky" than a restaurant while still having dismal chances of success though. Nobody who starts a business expects that it'll be bankrupt within a few years, yet statistically some 90% are. The worst cases are when the company manages along for years and then still goes under. I was contracting for a 10 year old company of ~30 people last year and they just had to fire 20 of those and will still almost certainly go bankrupt. They weren't in a business you'd call "risky" either.