eh, the thing about margins of safety is that when done properly, they let you recover from mistakes, which lets you take risks more often.    I see a break-even business as a &#x27;save point&#x27; almost -  you can go and put effort then into this or that or the other that might or might not work out, but as long as you&#x27;ve got the break even business paying everyone&#x27;s rent, you fall back to a place where you still have all your infrastructure ready to go for your next try.<p>If your company is &#x27;default dead&#x27; as it were, a schedule slip (a slip past the end of your runway, that is)  means, at best, bankruptcy and starting over.<p>And really, you want some safety built into <i>that</i> too-  if you screw up your taxes, or screw up your corporation badly enough, failure can mean personal bankruptcy, or if it is a tax matter, something much worse than personal bankruptcy.