What is a Microbusiness?

Microbusinesses are businesses typically run by less than five people. In many urban and rural places around the world, much commerce still takes place through small transactions made a business owned by one person. Microbusinesses are not new; they have been around since the beginning of commerce. What’s new however is how quickly someone can start a business and reach a group of customers. The building process is much faster and cheaper today than it has ever been. Going from idea to start-up can take less than a month and cost less than $1000. Commerce may have been around forever, but scale, reach and connection have changed dramatically. It’s a middle-class leaderless movement. Ordinary people are opting out of their traditional employment and making their own way. Instead of fighting the system, they are creating their own form of work, usually without much training and almost always without much money. These unexpected entrepreneurs have turned their passion into profit while creating a more meaningful life themselves.

Thanks to advancement of technology, entrepreneurs can now easily test, launch and scale their projects quickly and on the cheap. To start a business, an entrepreneur needs three things:

• product or service
• a group of people who are willing to pay for the product or service
• a way to get paid

The three above items are fundamentals of starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur. Everything else is completely optional.

If you are good at one thing, you are probably good at other things too. Many projects begin through the process of skill transformation in which you apply your knowledge to a related topic. Most important; merge your passion and skill with something that is useful to other people.

Have you wondered about the passions or interests of yours which can turn into dollars?

What if you could do this too?

What if you could have the same freedom to set your schedule and determine your own priorities?

What if you could get out your daily cubicle and be free?

Good news! Freedom is possible.

More good news? Freedom is not something envisioned in the vaguely distanced future.

The future is now.