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proof that someone would rather own their exhaustion than rent it to someone else.
means a company small enough that the owner still answers the phone, does the taxes, and loses sleep over both.
from the term got bureaucratic teeth in 1953 when the US created the Small Business Administration to define, fund, and champion enterprises too small to lobby congress themselves.
US definitionoften under 500 employees, but varies by industry
job creationroughly two-thirds of new US jobs come from them
survival oddsabout half fail within five years
global shareover 90 percent of all businesses worldwide are small