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78.4% of all US businesses are nonemployer businesses

They have no paid employees - no payroll, no headcount, often no storefront. Yet they're measured by the same growth and hiring metrics built for employer businesses

Weaver Portrait Series

Weaver Portraits
Found in the Making
Found in the Making

Born in Aleppo, Syria, Benita and her family immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. She learned the taste of her birthplace and the traditional craft of cheesemaking at her family’s table in New Jersey, where jibneh was handmade at home.

Follow Benita’s path and you will find a grove growing beyond her kernel. Each seed planted opened a route to the next point. Each wild, blossoming tree was grown because Benita was already carrying the kernel ready to plant.

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An ongoing series of portraits from Weaver’s research into how microentrepreneurs build.

Not the version measured by traditional metrics, but the real one.

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Field Notes Short takes on new research and what it means on the ground: how we measure, how founders really find support, and what programs can do differently.

Reading List A short list of free-to-read research and reports behind Weaver's work, from Census data on nonemployer businesses to what randomized trials say about business training.