Bankers don't like to lend into a trade with such a high failure rate.
The thinking is that these investors have the experience and deep enough pockets to withstand losses, given that start-ups have a high failure rate.
Many enterprises have been experimenting with platforms of engagement for the past couple of years, although most have experienced a fairly high failure rate.
FORBES: Enterprise 2.0: Why All Business Software Must Go Social
But they warn IVF treatment carries no guarantees - with a high failure rate and extra risks of multiple pregnancies where it is successful.
Undaunted by the high failure rate, the fourth one, the London-based Inmarsat, plans to sell a substantial portion of its shares to the public next year.
Among those using modern methods, there is a heavy reliance on IUDs, which tend to have a high failure rate because they are often inserted improperly.
Maybe it's an act of desperation, but they have concluded that instant feedback is one way to cope with the pressure for shorter product cycles and with the high failure rate of new products.
Ressi started the Founder Institute in 2009 in his Palo Alto, Calif. garage as a response to the financial crisis and his belief that lowering the high failure rate for start-ups could lead to an economic recovery.
FORBES: Adeo Ressi's Founder Institute Sprouts Start-ups Around The Globe
Yet paradoxically, the beginnings of success are often the cause of the high rate of failure.
The high rate of failure in scientific research should be sufficient to convince us of the lack of effectiveness in its design.
Ms. Bonaffini examined a sampling of data from these states and it showed "an extremely high failure-to-report rate, " the document said.
Ron Paul submitted over 14K signatures and was quickly approved: as I said, the failure rate is not that high.
FORBES: Why Is It So Difficult To Qualify For the Virginia Presidential Primary Ballot?
But the government has ordered a review of literacy teaching after a Commons education select committee report in April said a 17% failure rate was "unacceptably high".
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
The failure rate of successfully bearing children to term via IVF remains high.
The 54% failure rate of five-star players to be drafted is "quite high" and somewhat surprising, said Cary Caro, an assistant business professor at Xavier University in New Orleans who analyzes and has written about recruiting.
WSJ: Signing Day: The Currency of College Football's Big Day
The WarpDrive card helps to ensure high reliability with a management infrastructure offering extensive monitoring, including health, error rate and drive failure.
应用推荐