I very much doubt this is the case. In 2011, over half a million businesses were started each month in the U.S. in addition to the 23 million small businesses t

I very much doubt this is the case. In 2011, over half a million businesses were started each month in the U.S. in addition to the 23 million small businesses that were already around. Seems unlikely to assume these were all from well to do folks with a strong safety net. Source: http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/nonemployer/nonsect.pl http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/nonemployer/nonsect.pl