[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Realistically, only a small percentage of people can start and succeed in a small business. When things were going in the right direction, 4 out of 5 failed.

Yet you hear that all the time here. Laid off from the car wash? Start your own Microsoft.
Some people here can only be explained as shills.

[harpseal]

In the field of IT how does one maintain customers and start a business when the customers are faced with the IRS demanding that after they have paid their independant contractors as contractors they then pony up all the taxes as though these people were employees. There was a case at Microsoft in the 1990's where this was the situation.