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Chapter 5:
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
1 3 5
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Construction
About 11.73 percent of businesses with fewer than 20 employees are
involved in construction. Because many construction jobs are relatively small, local
projects, local construction firms are often ideally suited as contractors. Many such
firms are begun by skilled craftspeople who start out working for someone else and
subsequently decide to work for themselves. Common examples of small construction
firms include home builders, wood finishers, roofers, painters, and plumbing, electrical,
and roofing contractors.
For example, Marek Brothers Construction in College Station, Texas, was started
by two brothers, Pat and Joe Marek. They originally worked for other contractors
but started their own partnership in 1980. Their only employee is a receptionist.
They manage various construction projects, including new-home construction
and remodeling, subcontracting out the actual work to other businesses or to
individual craftspeople. Marek Brothers has an annual gross income of about $5
million.
Finance and Insurance
Finance and insurance businesses comprise about 4.2 percent
of all firms with fewer than 20 employees. In most cases, these businesses either are affili-
ates of or sell products provided by larger national firms. Although the deregulation of the
banking industry has reduced the number of small local banks, other businesses in this
sector are still doing quite well.
Typically, for example, local State Farm Mutual offices are small businesses. State Farm
itself is a major insurance company, but its local offices are run by 16,500 independent
The company recently added another automated
service to its innovative product line. With the
acquisition of Building Solutions, a firm specializing in
software-controlled home energy audits, SolarCity
entered the market for home-efficiency upgrades.
Company auditors now come into a house armed
with duct blowers, infrared cameras, and combustion
analyzers to check for leaks and test heaters. The
data are then analyzed to determine what can be
done at what cost and to calculate the homeowner’s
best return on his or her upgrade investment. COO
Peter Rive (Lyndon’s older brother) is especially
optimistic about the company’s ability to combine
panel-installation services with such services as
energy audits and building-envelope sealing (sealing
leaks in walls, doors, and windows). “As of right
now,” he points out, “there aren’t residential energy-
efficiency providers with any serious scale. We’re
going to be able to bring serious economies of
scale” to bear on the costs to both the provider and
the customer.
Like Darin Budwig, Google engineer Michael
Flaster leased a SolarCity system for his home in
Menlo Park, California. He saves $100 a month on
his energy bill and expects to save more than
$16,000 over the 15 years of his lease. His
employers at Google, a longtime supporter of
clean-energy innovations, were impressed and
recently announced a $280 million fund to help
SolarCity finance solar installations across the
country.

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