Trends in Small-Business Start-Ups
Thousands of new businesses are started in the United States every year. Several factors
account for this trend, and in this section we focus on four of them.
Emergence of E-Commerce
Clearly, one of the most significant recent trends in
small-business start-ups is the rapid emergence of electronic commerce. Because the
Internet has provided fundamentally new ways of doing business, savvy entrepreneurs
have been able to create and expand new businesses faster and more easily than ever
before. Leading-edge firms such as Facebook, Google, and eBay, for example, owe their
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