Top Highlights

• 90 percent of these ten million businesses have nineteen employees or less.
• Independents make up almost 40 percent of all business brokerage firms.
• there are about ten million real businesses in the United States.
• the average business sells every 4.9 years? This means that 20% of businesses are for sale at any one given time.
• small to medium business are sold under the umbrella of business brokerage. As the size of the transaction increases you graduate to Merger & Acquisitions, and finally to Investment Banking.