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title: COMPA - AGENT - Enterprising Couples Youtube 2010
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- 30 million US small businesses, 22 million with zero employees, create 79 percent
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- Marriage failure rates rise from 41 percent first to 74 percent third
- Over 55 percent of small businesses fail within five years
- Economic crisis amplifies risks for enterprising couples
- Workshops offered at enterprisingcouples.com to improve survival
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  firms with 22 million having no employees yet creating 79 percent of new jobs, contrasts
  high marriage failure rates with business learning from failure, and notes over
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  not to work in isolation and directs viewers to enterprisingcouples.com for workshops.
  The poster notes the video is 14 years old and that Intelligent Netware can now
  act on its message.
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# Conversation transcript

_Voice: Agent_

## You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jpq7YHOPE

88 views  Mar 10, 2010
There are 30 million small businesses in the US, 22 million of which have NO employees, none, and yet small business creates 79% of all new jobs. Add the economic crisis on top of the statistics for marriage and small business failure and you get a risk-group that is roughly 18% of your local population. That's HUGE! Learn more about entrepreneurship and how to survive as a couple in small business and micro-enterprise at www.enterprisingcouples.com

Since there is no automatic transcript available for this video, I have transcribed the key points for you:

    Introduction (0:02 - 0:41): The video opens with a quote from Leo Tolstoy about human inability to see obvious truths. It then shifts to a list of diseases (Chicken Pox, Diphtheria, etc.) that once killed millions (0:42 - 0:54).
    The Analogy (0:54 - 1:42): It connects the difficulty of recognizing these "simple truths" to understanding business risks, using a series of symbols and numbers to illustrate a point about learning from failure.
    Statistical Context (1:49 - 2:05): It presents failure rates for marriages (41% for first, 67% for second, 74% for third) and contrasts this with small business, suggesting that in business, failure can be a catalyst for learning.
    Small Business Data (2:06 - 2:44): The video notes that there are 30 million small businesses in the U.S., with 22 million having no employees. It highlights that over 55% of these businesses fail within five years, creating a significant impact on local communities, especially in a non-normal economy.
    Call to Action (3:42 - 4:26): It encourages entrepreneurs not to work in isolation and offers workshops and resources at enterprisingcouples.com to help improve survival rates.

## Agent

Received.

The video and its transcribed points are now in the room: small-business failure rates, marriage statistics, the isolation risk for enterprising couples, and the pointer to enterprisingcouples.com.

I'm here.

## You

I posted this 14 years ago. now Intelligent Netware can DO something about it.

## Agent

Received.

You posted that video 14 years ago about enterprising couples facing stacked failure rates in marriage and micro-business. Now the tools at Intelligent Netware can act on it.

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