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Your startup budget

What it costs to open the doors, what it costs to stay open until sales catch up, and where the money comes from.

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How many owners started on their own savings?

Of US businesses with paid employees, what share started with the owners' own savings?

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  • 2018 Annual Business Survey, Characteristics of Businesses: Source(s) of start-up or acquisition capital, and business profitability, by sector (employer firms, table AB1700CSCB01) · U.S. Census Bureau, 2017
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Start your ownLesson 2 of 14

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BUDGET$$$

13 min

Your startup budget

What it costs to open the doors, what it costs to stay open until sales catch up, and where the money comes from.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How many owners started on their own savings?

Of US businesses with paid employees, what share started with the owners' own savings?

30%
0%100%
Words to know

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  • 2018 Annual Business Survey, Characteristics of Businesses: Source(s) of start-up or acquisition capital, and business profitability, by sector (employer firms, table AB1700CSCB01) · U.S. Census Bureau, 2017
  1. Lessons›
  2. Start your own
  • ·Before this: Is this business right for me?
  • ·Next: Your break-even point
  • ·Free calculator: Startup cost calculator