What’s a small business? Are you a small business? You might think so, but the US Small Business Administration has a comprehensive list of their “requirements” to be considered a small business in various industries. You can see it in this table, the Small Business Size Standards matched to North American Industry Classification System.
Feel free to point out anything crazy you find in the comments, like how come “Chicken Egg Production” businesses are “small” up to $10.5 million dollars, but “Hog and Pig Farming” operations above $750,000 aren’t?
Business Opportunities Weblog | Message from the SBA’s Office of Advocacy on August 26th, 2005 at 8:35 am
[...] Moments after I pressed publish on my last, slightly contemptuous post about the SBA, I received this email from the John McDowell of the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. He wrote: Knowing of your interest in small business and entrepreneurship, I thought you might be interested in the resources available from the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration. See our web site at http://www.sba.gov/advo. [...]
Chuck on August 26th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Compared to the pigs in Congress, these ARE SMALL!