Small businesses big in the land of Disney
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By Jim Turner
Posted at 10:47 AM on July 11, 2007
The Orlando region and three other Florida markets - Sarasota-Bradenton, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, and Jacksonville - were ranked among the five best locations in America for starting a small business, according to a Bizjournals study.
The four Florida markets received praise based upon their rapid growth, employment and overall number of small businesses. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota-Bradenton each have more than 3,000 small businesses per every 100,000 residents, a mark reached by only the Denver and Bridgeport-Stamford, Connecticut markets.
Bizjournals, the online division of American City Business Journals, defined a small business as a private employer with 99 fewer employees.
Orlando has 54,539 small businesses, while Sarasota-Bradenton has 20,644, Miami-Fort Lauderdale has 171,375 and Jacksonville recorded 33,129.
The Treasure Coast was not included as the list only looked at the top 75 metro areas in the nation. Nor was West Palm Beach.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale topped the list a year ago.
Others in the top 10 were: Las Vegas (3); Raleigh, N.C. (6); Washington, D.C. (7); Salt Lake City (8); Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif. (9); and Minneapolis-St. Paul (10).
Springfield, Massachusetts was the leader from the wrong end of the list due to a sluggish population growth and six-year decline in the number of existing small businesses.
Posted at 10:47 AM on July 11, 2007
The Orlando region and three other Florida markets - Sarasota-Bradenton, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, and Jacksonville - were ranked among the five best locations in America for starting a small business, according to a Bizjournals study.
The four Florida markets received praise based upon their rapid growth, employment and overall number of small businesses. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota-Bradenton each have more than 3,000 small businesses per every 100,000 residents, a mark reached by only the Denver and Bridgeport-Stamford, Connecticut markets.
Bizjournals, the online division of American City Business Journals, defined a small business as a private employer with 99 fewer employees.
Orlando has 54,539 small businesses, while Sarasota-Bradenton has 20,644, Miami-Fort Lauderdale has 171,375 and Jacksonville recorded 33,129.
The Treasure Coast was not included as the list only looked at the top 75 metro areas in the nation. Nor was West Palm Beach.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale topped the list a year ago.
Others in the top 10 were: Las Vegas (3); Raleigh, N.C. (6); Washington, D.C. (7); Salt Lake City (8); Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif. (9); and Minneapolis-St. Paul (10).
Springfield, Massachusetts was the leader from the wrong end of the list due to a sluggish population growth and six-year decline in the number of existing small businesses.
