The Entrepreneurship Trap — Why Most Businesses Fail

5 min readMay 28, 2022

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Entrepreneurship is one of the toughest jobs on this planet to earn money.

As an entrepreneur, you carry the financial risk and emotional burden with little to no known outcomes.

I can’t wrap my mind around the idea of why everyone wants to become an entrepreneur.

Nour Boustani

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