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In reply to the discussion: Millennials don't want to be coddled, they want jobs! [View all]jody
(26,624 posts)invited about 16 small business owners to the White House for discussion but all those people were part of the 20% or so who survived the first two years.
Why didn't he invite a dozen or so people who tried to start a small business and failed quickly and find out why they failed?
I've worked with SBA centers for several years and always been disappointed with their lack of qualifications.
Moreover people in their area who want to start a business often don't know they exist.
Myth or legend blame it on a faulty memory but the following story from another era has a message:
In WWII a meeting was held among crews and aircraft designers to find ways to reduce losses during missions.
The discussion centered on how to redesign the places on an aircraft that had been hit but survived to make it back to the base.
The group was mostly unanimous that the damaged areas on aircraft that made it back to England should be reinforced.
That is until the last request for questions prompted the following from some kid pilot.
He asked, shouldn't we redesign the areas that were not damaged on returning planes because that's probably where damage occurred that caused the plane to crash.
There was silence in the room and things supposedly turned our quite differently.