we are in the midst of the largest entrepreneurial surge this country has ever seen, fortune small business reports.
according to small business administration projections, nearly 672,000 new companies with employees were created in 2005 — the biggest business birthrate in u.s. history, 30,000 more startups than in 2004, and 12 percent more than at the height of dot-com hysteria in 1996. “and the trend shows no sign of abating,” fortune says. sixty-six percent of respondents in a 2006 yahoo small business and harris interactive survey said they wanted to start a company someday; 37 percent of those said they hoped to do so within the next five years.