These items sustain life such as food water and shelter in business?

These items sustain life such as food water and shelter in business?
Just like any living organism requires food, water and shelter to sustain its life, business has some basic requirements to sustain its life. Some of them are :
1. Capital Investment to start business.
2. Availability of the materials depending of the type of business.
3. Workforce whether it is manual or automatic.
4. Demand of the items produced/manufactured by the business.
5. Good management group.