In honor of the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale, tells the entrepreneurship story from Canada to Colombia with statistics and other fun facts.
BizBuySell, a marketplace of businesses for sale, offers about 45,000 U.S. businesses for sale, and records more than 840,000 monthly site visits from U.S.-based web users.
Currently there are 2.3 million entrepreneurs in Canada–-or one in every 10 adults. Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper has said that 2011 will be a "great one" for entrepreneurs in Canada.
The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy named Denmark a world leader in entrepreneurial performance based on business growth and cultural support.
An estimated 13 out of every 100 Brazilians are involved in start-ups, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
The BBC surveyed 24,000 people in 24 countries and named Indonesia the best place to start a new business because of innovation, the ease of starting a business, and entrepreneurial prestige there.
A BBC survey concluded that Colombia was the worst place for entrepreneurs to start a new business.
Only 24% of Turkish people feel that innovation or creativity is valued in their culture.
It takes entrepreneurs in China an average 38 days to start a business, according to the Small Business Association. On average it takes entrepreneurs in the U.S. six days to do so.
In 2009, 95% of Yemeni people saw starting a business as a desirable career choice.
Women from low-income or middle-income countries like Russia are more likely to become early-stage entrepreneurs, compared to those from higher-income countries.
It costs six times as much money to start a business in India as it does in the U.S.
The word "entrepreneur" is French. Jean-Baptiste Say, the French economist who coined the term, defined an entrepreneur as "one who undertakes an enterprise."
