Top 10 Reasons to Love Small Business
The Heart of the Nation's Economy

•  Small businesses make up 99.7 percent of all United States employers.
•  Small businesses create more than 50 percent of the American non-farm private gross domestic product. (GDP)
•  Small patenting firms produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.
•  The more than 24 million small businesses in the United States are located in every community and neighborhood.
•  Small businesses employ 50.1 percent of the United States' non-farm private sector workers.
•  Home-based businesses account for 53 percent of all small businesses.
•  Small businesses are 97 percent of America's exporters and produce 26 percent of all export value.
•  United States saw an estimated 580,865 new small firms with employees start-up in the last year measured.
•  There are approximately 4,115,900 minority-owned businesses and 6,492,795 women-owned businesses in the United States, and almost all of them are small businesses.
•  The latest figures show that small businesses creates 65 percent or more of America's net new jobs.

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