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Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) - Characteristics of Businesses: 2015 Tables

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Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) - Characteristics of Businesses: 2015 Tables

zip Number of Owners in Business
zip Majority of Business Family-Owned
zip Jointly Owned or Operated by Spouses
zip Business Aspirations of Owners
zip Year Business Originally Established
zip Operated as Franchise or Partially as Franchise
zip Source(s) of Start-Up or Acquisition Capital
zip Amount of Start-Up or Acquisition Capital
zip Source(s) and Amount of Funding
zip New Funding Relationships Attempted
zip Reasons for Avoiding Additional Financing
zip Business Profitability
zip Negative Impacts on Profitability
zip Type(s) of Customer Categories
zip Location of Business Customers/Clients
zip Percent of Total Sales Exported
zip Operations Outside the United States
zip Outsourced Business Function Outside United
zip Language(s) Used in Transactions
zip Type(s) of Workers Employed
zip Employer-Paid Benefits Offered
zip Company Had a Website
zip E-Commerce as Percentage of Total Sales
zip Home-Based Business
zip Type(s) of Intellectual Property
zip Seasonal or Part-Time Business Status
zip Business Operation or Reason Ceased
zip Percent of Type(s) of Workers
zip Tasks Performed by Type(s) of Workers
zip Managing Service or Production Problems
zip Number of Key Performance Indicators
zip Frequency of Key Performance Indicators
zip Business Targets Timeframe
zip Effort Needed to Achieve Business Targets
zip Employee Promotions
zip Under-performing Employees
zip Record-keeping for Budgeting and Finance Activities
zip Decision Making for Budgeting and Finance Activities
zip Record-keeping for Sales and Purchases Activities
zip Decision Making for Sales and Purchases Activities
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