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Institute for the Future
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One was that 10 million people said they are considering starting their own businesses in the future. That's the biggest number we've seen in 25 years. The second surprise was that 6 million people actually followed through and started those businesses, and one-third of them are doing business globally. We thought those figures merited further study.
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We get them from surveys we do when selling our consumer products, like Quicken and TurboTax.
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There are 20 million businesses—out of the 26 million businesses total in the U.S.—that have no employees. We found that a good portion of them don't call themselves small-business owners, but freelancers or hobbyists.
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The fastest-growing entrepreneurial age group right now is 55 to 64 years old, and that's going to continue to grow.
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