The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship offers some interesting facts about the 20 million self-employed in the US recently reported by the Census Bureau:
- Each day, 2,356 Americans decide to go into business for themselves.
- Their companies account for 78% of all US businesses.
- They collectively obtain annual receipts of $951 billion.
- Georgia (up 7.6%) and Utah (up 7.2%) showed the highest annual increases. The national average increase was 4.4 percent.
- The fastest growing sector was Web search portals, where the number of self-employed jumped an astounding 41.2 percent in one year.
