If he must rely on market forces, the outcome will depend on his actions and those of his competitors, as well as the consumer response to those actions. The market awards and the market punishes. You must be willing to accept both if you want to accept either. Because you can't have one without the other. If a government agency had already been set up to assist the burgeoning entrepeneur, there would already be an governing entity and a precedence for the established entrepeneur to consult the government agency in his time of trouble.
Capitalists can sometimes be their own worst enemy.
Rather than willing to accept the judgment of the market, positive or negative, modern capitalists seem to be willing only to accept the positive. Any time their business is in trouble, they run to government for assistance. Yet government intervention is a double-edged sword. If it's going to intervene on unsuccessful entrepeneurs, it is also going to intervene on successful entrepeneurs. Small Business Subsidies Small business subsidies is virtually identical to the case for Agriculture Technology Transfer.