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from all the stores or just the selected merchant. Choose the shopping
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Newsflash -SOHO-
fuels growth in the 21st Century
Get-in2 believes in Small Business rules in Y-
2003, so we've compiled a list of small-business facts and figures. All statistics are
from the U.S. Small Business Administration web site, unless otherwise noted. Find insight
and inspiration in knowing our society depends on keeping small business in business.
Review the Small Business numbers
Number of small businesses in the United
States: 29 million
Percentage of U.S. employers that are small
businesses: 99.7
Percentage of the private-sector work force
employed by small businesses: 53%
Percentage of new jobs created by small
businesses: 80%
Number of employees in the average U.S.
small business: 3
Percentage of the U.S. gross national
product generated by small businesses 1998: 51%
Percentage of all U.S. technological
innovations generated by small businesses: 55%
Percentage of small-business owners who were
home-based SOHO-in 1999: 50% (Dun & Bradstreet)
Financing
facts
Percentage of startups financed by the
owner, friends or family: 71 (Coopers and Lybrand)
Percentage of startups financed by
investors: 13% (C&L)
Percentage of startups financed by bank
loans: 8% (C&L)
Percentage of startups financed by
supplier/customer alliances: 8 (C&L)
Number of business plans, out of every
1,000, that win venture funding through venture capital firms: 6% (startupfailure.com)
Percentage of small businesses that fail
within the first year of business: 80 %
Percentage of small businesses that use
business credit cards for business purposes: 27.6% (Federal Reserve)
Percentage of small businesses that use
personal credit cards for business purposes: 39.2% (Federal Reserve)
Percentage of federal contract dollars that
go to small businesses: 35%
Number of hours a typical small-business
owner works per week: 50.4
Number of hours a typical small-business
owner spends on financial tasks per week: 22 hrs. (MasterCard)
Net impact
Percentage of small businesses that accessed
the Internet in 1999: 50 (International Data Corp.)
Projected percentage of small businesses
accessing the Internet by 2003: 70% (IDC)
Number of small companies transacting
business on the Internet in 1998: 1.8 million (Access Media International)
Number of small companies transacting
business on the Internet in 2000: 2.8 million (AMI)
Dollars that U.S. small businesses spent
online in 1998: 2 billion (AMI)
Dollars that U.S. small businesses spent
online in 1999: 25 billion (AMI)
Projected online spending by small
businesses in 2000: $55 billion (AMI)
Projected e-commerce sales earnings for
small firms in 2002: $25 billion
Conquering
the world
Percentage of U.S. exporters that are small
businesses: 97% (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Number of small-business exporters in 1987:
65,900 (IRS)
Number of small-business exporters in 1997:
202,185 (IRS)
Percentage of total U.S. export sales
generated by small businesses: 31
Percentage increase in value for
small-business exports between 1992 and 1997: 300 %
Internet Opportunities for all
Number of women-owned small businesses in
1999: 9.1 million
Number of people employed by women-owned
small businesses: 27.5 million
Percentage increase in women-owned small
businesses from 1988 to 1998: 89%
Percentage growth in revenue for women-owned
businesses from 1987 to 1997: 221%
Number of Hispanic-owned small businesses in
1997: 1.4 million
Number of Asian-owned small businesses in
1997: 1.1 million
Number of black-owned small businesses in
1997: 880,000
Revenue generated by minority-owned
businesses in 1997: $495 billion
Projected revenue for minority small
businesses in 2000: $830 billion
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Adwarez program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and
which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit.
Adware/Spyware or Malware is a huge problem not covered by anti-virus programs. The
parasite problem has grown enormously recently, and many millions of computers are
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