MBA2617 5 Online Businesses with Shockingly High Failure Rates

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Marketing

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Not all that glitters is gold—especially in the world of online business. Some ventures might seem like the perfect opportunity, but lurking beneath the surface are challenges that can derail them in no time. In this lesson, Omar reveals five specific types of online businesses that have shockingly high failure rates. These ventures often struggle […]

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0:00.0	Want to know the fastest way to lose your money and sanity?
0:03.3	Start one of these online businesses I'll share today.
0:07.0	Look, I'm not here to sugarcoat things.
0:09.3	I'm here to show you that not all business ideas are created equal.
0:13.7	Some businesses give you leverage.
0:15.5	Some businesses are easy to scale.
0:17.8	And some, they're just ticking time bombs to failure today i'm going to break down five
0:22.9	online businesses that look great from the outside but have insanely high failure rates the numbers
0:28.9	do not lie even if you're thinking about starting one of these and i don't think you should
0:34.3	i think it's better for you to go in with your eyes wide open so you know what you're getting into but don't later say that uncle omar didn't think you should. I think it's better for you to go in with your eyes wide open.
0:38.1	So you know what you're getting into.
0:39.5	But don't later say that Uncle Omar didn't warn you.
0:47.2	Welcome back to the $100 MBA show.
0:49.5	I'm your host, Omar Zen Home, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week,
0:54.9	Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business.
1:00.6	Before we jump in and discuss all five of these businesses, I want to talk about why some
1:05.5	online businesses crash and burn and some don't. And the first thing I want to point out is
1:10.7	something that not a lot of
1:11.6	people talk about. And that's low barriers of entry. Any business that has a low barrier of entry
1:16.8	means anyone can do it, which means everyone does it, which makes it very hard to compete.
1:22.4	If it's very, very easy to start this type of business, that means competition is going to be very high.
1:28.9	The second reason why businesses crash and burn, and it's related to the first one, it's that
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