The Russians called the lack of start-up capital the main obstacle to starting a business

The main obstacle to starting your own business is the lack of start-up capital. This follows from the results of the study of the Rabota.ru service, writes RBC. More than 5,000 people took part in the survey.

Another 39% of respondents consider the lack of knowledge and experience to be the main problem that will hinder the creation of a business. Every third (30%) considers the lack of useful contacts to be the reason why nothing will work out.

According to the results of the study, every tenth Russian (10%) is ready to start an entrepreneurial activity next year, a quarter (25%) has not yet decided on this issue, and 65% of respondents definitely do not plan to do this.

It is specified that a year ago, the results of the service showed that 60% of Russians want to open their own business. The most popular areas were design and creativity, the least popular were medicine and education.

By data survey of the job search service SuperJob, almost half of Russians (47%) now have no savings. At the same time, among those who have personal savings, 18% could live only on them for 1-2 months, without having any sources of income. A financial airbag would provide life from 3 to 6 months for 9% of respondents, from 6 months to a year – 6% of respondents. Only 5% of Russians could live on personal savings without any sources of income.

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