• Small business owners started or acquired their first business at an average age of 35 1 / 2. • 62 percent say being a small business owner or entrepreneur takes more work than they expected.

How happy are small business owners with their work situation? What do they enjoy most about owning their own business? To find out, VistaPrint and YouGov conducted a survey in February 2025 among ...

A reader writes that he’d like my take on “the single weirdest trend I’m aware of in American opinion: small business optimism.” I aim to please, so here’s my hot take. First off, here ...

The results are based a quarterly survey of more than 1,000 owners of micro-businesses, which have between 1 and 10 employees, gross less than $100,000 a year, and are typically run out of the home.

Freelancers, side hustlers, micro business owners and anyone working in the gig economy. Are we all happier turning our backs on the 9-5? In Britain at least, this seems to be the case.

Why Everyone’s Happy When Small Businesses are Happy New data from Wells Fargo and PNC Bank show improved small business sentiment and labor conditions. BY JEREMY QUITTNER , SENIOR WRITER, INC.

Small business owners remain very pessimistic about economic prospects this year and did not notice the third quarter surge in the economy last year that the government reported. When Trump won ...

Small-business owners should work to build relationships with a network of trusted experts rather than be a jack-of-all ... Happy employees tend to want to satisfy the company's customers, ...

Today, these small-business owners are not a happy bunch. Despite a surge in startups, lower inflation, a softening labor market, fewer supply chain issues and a growing economy, ...