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Family Business

Chart illustrating who business owners have chosen to follow in their footsteps.

By Inc. staff | 
 

JANUARY 1991

Whom have you chosen to follow in your footsteps?

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Child 42%

Employee 30

Partner 14

Other relative 9

Outside party 5

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Source: "Pulse of the Middle Market -- 1990," a survey of 1,650 owners of businesses with revenues ranging from $2 million to $100 million, by BDO Seidman, New York City.

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