NZ SME survival rate: only 27% of 2015 businesses still open
New Zealand loves a start-up story. The garage inventor, the side-hustle-turned-empire, the no-8-wire founder who backed themselves. What we talk about far less is the statistical reality: most of those ventures will be dead within a decade, and a disturbing number won’t survive year three. The numbers are not ambiguous. Government data shows 92% of…

