About WE
WE build worlds
World Enterprise Group Incorporated is a business incubation and consulting firm.
WE steers dedicated, fully remote teams that build companies with their founders, paced to the years a company really takes. WE is a services firm, not an investor. WE makes no promise of funding.
The work follows one motto: WE Dream. WE Build. WE Grow. A founder brings a company, or the idea for one. WE plans the work with them, steers the team that does it, and stays for the years it takes the company to find its place.
Dream, Build, Grow
- Dream is where the problem and the customer are tested before anything is built.
- Build turns the validated idea into a product that ships.
- Grow earns the first customers and assembles the evidence an investor asks for.
Each stage produces artifacts you can open and inspect: a playbook, a template, a checklist, a sourced brief. WE would rather hand you something concrete than describe a feeling of progress.
Fully remote, on purpose
WE is fully digital. There is no office to visit and no relocation to plan.
WE does not promise funding, and nothing here predicts that a company will raise money. WE does not keep your books, file your taxes or replace your lawyer.
The language of the work
Droids, worlds, solar systems, galaxies.
WE's Universal Business Framework describes companies the way astronomy describes the sky. Projects become companies (worlds), companies form groups (solar systems), and groups shape industries (galaxies). Some projects are comets: unstable until they are better planned.
The framework is how WE plans the work and talks about it with founders.
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Droid
A project, launched with one purpose.
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World
A company the project grows into.
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Solar system
A group of companies around a center.
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Galaxy
An industry those groups shape.
WE Dream. WE Build. WE Grow.
One flight, at the company's pace
Dream tests the problem and the customer before anything is built. Build turns what was learned into a product that ships. Grow earns customers and finds the company its place in the market.
Each stage takes as long as the work takes. WE stays for the whole flight, not for a fixed number of weeks.
Show, not tell
A world takes ten years. Watch one form in a minute.
The film follows one company from its application to its tenth year, drawn as a world forming: dust, a core, a lit world, rings, moons and a system around it. Every figure in it is a public survival statistic for new U.S. businesses, cited below the player.
Transcript and sources: A company's first decade, in one minute
The film has no sound; every word in it is on screen, and the captions repeat them. Only years 1, 5 and 10 on the ring of 100 lights are data. Between those years the film dims lights at an even pace, which is a drawing, not a measurement.
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0:00 to 0:05. A company's first decade, in one minute
Picture: A night-blue sky with a faint field of stars. The title fades in at the center.
On screen: WE build worlds. This is how long one takes.
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0:05 to 0:12. Year 0. Incubation: the dust gathers
Picture: A loose cloud of blue dust begins to turn slowly around an empty center.
On screen: An idea, a plan and a filed application. Nothing is built yet. 5,671,836 U.S. business applications were filed in 2025, the most in any year of the series.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics.
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0:12 to 0:19. Months 0 to 7. The core forms
Picture: The dust falls inward and packs into a small core of hexagonal tiles that glows faintly.
On screen: The first hire comes months after the application, not days. 2.29 quarters (about seven months) from application to first payroll, for 2021 applications that hired within two years.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics; U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics definitions.
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0:19 to 0:26. Year 1. Launch: the world lights up
Picture: The core ignites into a lit world. Around it, a ring of 100 small lights stands for 100 new establishments; about 22 of them dim.
On screen: Of every 100 new establishments, about 78 are still open a year later. 77.9% of new U.S. establishments were still operating after one year.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7.
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0:26 to 0:33. Year 3.5. Established: the rings settle
Picture: Two orbit rings settle around the world. More of the 100 lights on the outer ring have dimmed.
On screen: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor waits 42 months before it calls a business established. 42 months (3.5 years) before GEM counts a business as established.
Source: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, U.S. report 2025/2026 (Babson College).
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0:33 to 0:40. Year 5. Growth years: moons condense
Picture: Three small moons condense from the leftover dust and take up orbits. About half of the 100 lights remain lit.
On screen: Half of new establishments are still open at five years. 51.4% of new U.S. establishments were still operating after five years.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7.
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0:40 to 0:46. Year 9. A steadier orbit
Picture: The world turns steadily; its rings and moons hold their paths. Very few further lights dim.
On screen: Survival gets easier with age: the years of patience start to pay. 94.4% of establishments still open after eight years survived their ninth, against 79.6% in their first.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7.
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0:46 to 0:52. Year 10. A world in its system
Picture: The camera eases back: the world sits in a small solar system of neighbors, one of them amber. About 35 lights remain.
On screen: About a third of new establishments reach their tenth year. 34.7% of new U.S. establishments were still operating after ten years.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7.
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0:52 to 0:57. WE build worlds.
Picture: The system rests on the night sky while the closing line fades in. The sources are listed at the bottom.
On screen: Long-horizon business incubation and consulting, paced to the years a company really takes.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics, monthly data (CSV), accessed 2026-10-14.
- U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics: Definitions, accessed 2026-10-14.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7: Survival of private sector establishments by opening year (total private), accessed 2026-10-14.
- Babson College, GEM USA 2025/2026 report coverage, accessed 2026-10-14.
Made by WE: drawn frame by frame in code from the figures above and encoded by WE. No stock footage, no music.
Download the video (MP4, H.264, 1920 by 1080, 0:57) or open the captions file (WebVTT).
The decade, milestone by milestone
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Year 0
Incubation: the dust gathers
5,671,836
U.S. business applications in 2025, the most in any year of the series.
An idea, a plan and a filed application. Nothing is built yet.
2025. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics
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Months 0 to 7
The core forms
2.29 quarters
from application to first payroll in 2021, against 1.48 in 2005.
The first hire comes months after the application, not days.
2021 and 2005 applications. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics ; U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics definitions
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Year 1
Launch: the world lights up
77.9%
of new U.S. establishments were still operating after one year.
Of every 100 new establishments, about 78 are still open a year later.
Opened in the year to March 2024. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7
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Year 3.5
Established: the rings settle
42 months
before GEM counts a business as established (3.5 years).
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor waits 42 months before it calls a business established.
Definition. Source: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, U.S. report 2025/2026 (Babson College)
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Year 5
Growth years: moons condense
51.4%
were still operating after five years.
Half of new establishments are still open at five years.
Opened in the year to March 2020. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7
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Year 9
A steadier orbit
94.4%
of establishments still open after eight years survived their ninth, against 79.6% in their first.
Survival gets easier with age: the years of patience start to pay.
Opened in the year to March 2013. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7
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Year 10
A world in its system
34.7%
were still operating after ten years.
About a third of new establishments reach their tenth year.
Opened in the year to March 2015. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics, Table 7
How the work is staffed
Fully remote. One company per team.
WE has no offices. Each team works on one company at a time. WE's leads (a Delivery Lead, a Technical Lead and an Executive Sponsor) answer to the founder.
Work happens in shared documents, written plans and scheduled reviews, which is why this site shows no street address.
One company
- Executive Sponsor
- Delivery Lead
- Technical Lead
- Product design
- Front end
- Back end
- Quality assurance
- Growth and support
Plain about what WE has not done yet.
WE publishes no client names, client quotes or results. The numbers on this site describe all new businesses, from public sources, so you can check them. What you can check about WE is the method, the agreement and the work itself.
- Firm
- Business incubation and consulting
- Format
- Fully remote
- Teams
- One company at a time
- Company
- World Enterprise Group Incorporated, registered in Delaware
Bring WE the company you mean to build
A readiness review is the first conversation: where the company stands, and whether WE is the right help for the years ahead.