Startup companies financed by venture capitalists have a much lower failure rate than companies financed by other means. Source of financing,therefore, must be a more important causative factorin the success of a start-up company than are suchfactors as the personal characteristics of theentrepreneur, the quality of strategic planning, or the management structure of the company.
A study of marital relationships in which one partner's sleeping and waking cycles differ from those of the other partner reveals that such couples share fewer activities with each other and have more violent arguments than do couples in a relationship in which both partners follow the same sleeping and waking patterns. Thus, mismatched sleeping and waking cycles can seriously jeopardize a marriage.
a well-balanced breakfast, including a variety of foods, is a better source of those vitamins than are such fortified breakfast cereals alone.
A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box