Small Business

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Small Business

A type of enterprise that is independently owned and operated, has few employees, does a small amount of business, and is not predominant in its area of operation.

Cross-references

Sole Proprietorship.

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Mom and pop shops would be all over the city and our streetscapes would be preserved.

A walk around the neighborhood with mom and pop

Such displacements of the Mom and Pop shops are happening in many developing and developed countries.

The passing of the mama stalls

Intel would probably rather avoid a million certifications with a million little ISPs, and a few companies with national WiFi networks would probably be better-at least from a usability perspective-than a million Mom and Pop shops.

From Intel, the Wireless laptop. (First in/First Out)

So these companies go and sell Element to every mall store in the world, every chain store, and so what that does is hurt the mom and pop shops and puts them out of business, the core skate shops that were here when magazines were only 20 pages.