Micro BIZ

The Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) and the U.S. Census's Survey of Business Owners and County Business Patterns define microbusinesses as enterprises with fewer than five employees, including the owner.

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), addresses a much broader subset of businesses in the economy, defining a small business "as one that is independently owned and operated, organized for profit and is not dominant in it's field and depending on industry, is under various employee and or sales levels.

The SBA does target very small businesses with it's Microloan Program, which funds up to $50,000.00 in capitalization loans through intermediary lenders.

There are five distinct types of Micro Business owners.

ADP- Automated Data Processing

ASN - Advanced Shipment Notice

B2B - Business to Business

B2C - Business to Consumers

CPU - Cost Per Unit

CTR - Click Through Rate

DMP - Data Management System

DNS - Domain Name System

EIN - Employer Identification Number

EPS - Earning Per Share

FTP - File Transport Protocol

GDP - Gross Domestic Product

GNP - Gross National Product

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Portal

ISO - International Standards Organization

ISP - Internet Service Provider