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Picking a location: home, a storefront or online

Your kitchen table, a van, a chair in someone else's shop, or your own storefront. Each one changes your costs, your customers and your rules. Pick the place after the numbers, not before.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How many businesses ran from home?

In 2007, the Census Bureau asked US business owners where they ran their business. What share were run from home?

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  • Half of U.S. businesses operated from the home (Random Samplings blog, June 14, 2011; 2007 Survey of Business Owners) · U.S. Census Bureau, 2007

Every number

  • 51.6%census.gov ·2007 · Share of US businesses that were home-based in the Census Bureau's 2007 Survey of Business Owners: every kind of business that answered.
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Start your ownLesson 9 of 14

Part 1 of 3, 0 done

13 min

Picking a location: home, a storefront or online

Your kitchen table, a van, a chair in someone else's shop, or your own storefront. Each one changes your costs, your customers and your rules. Pick the place after the numbers, not before.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How many businesses ran from home?

In 2007, the Census Bureau asked US business owners where they ran their business. What share were run from home?

20%
0%100%

Spot something wrong?

Tell us what looks off. No name or email needed.

What kind of problem?

0 / 1000

We'll also send this page, the lesson, ticket 1, so we can find it. Nothing else. Privacy

·
Sources and every number (1)

Sources

  • Half of U.S. businesses operated from the home (Random Samplings blog, June 14, 2011; 2007 Survey of Business Owners) · U.S. Census Bureau, 2007

Every number

  • 51.6%census.gov ·2007 · Share of US businesses that were home-based in the Census Bureau's 2007 Survey of Business Owners: every kind of business that answered.
  1. Lessons›
  2. Start your own
  • ·Before this: Money set-up: an account, simple books, and tax set aside
  • ·Next: Getting a loan: what a lender looks at