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- Title: Lorna Valdez on Cooking up a Business: Lorwill's BBQ Stand (Special NOTE ISSUE: SPECIAL ISSUE 2) (Case Study)
- Author : Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
- Release Date : January 15, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 275 KB
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CASE DESCRIPTION The search for opportunity is the entrepreneur's roller coaster. According to the SBA Office of Advocacy's annual report (Source: http://www.sba.gov/advo/), there are approximately 25.85 million small businesses in America. The economy and financial markets generally support the growth of small business. Many scholars estimate that 75% of the businesses formed will last less than five years. Approximately 19.86 million of these small businesses were sole proprietorships, which continue to rise according to an analysis of the Census Bureau data found in the SCORE website (Source: http://www.score.org/small_biz_stats.html). Between 1997 and 2002, women-owned businesses increased 19.8 percent or 6.5 million businesses. More than 14 percent of women-owned firms employed 7.1 million workers accounting for $173.7 billion in annual payroll in 2002.