Nearly all U.S. exporters are small businesses

[piezoe]

Koch Industries with their 70,000 employed workforce is classified as a small business.
KKR, with roughly $98 billion AUM, is classified as a small business.
Some MLP's are classified as a small business.

Some of you don't know what the heck a small business is.

I don't know about Koch Industries, but it is true that most people would be surprised how large a "small business can be," according to the SBA. See https://www.sba.gov/contracting/get...ndards/summary-size-standards-industry-sector

I don't think that Koch, using the statistics you quoted, could qualify, but if Koch was structured as a collection of qualifying small businesses, they possibly could. I would guess that the Koch Bros. can afford good lawyers.

I suppose on social media, any business is free to refer to themselves as a "Small, Family Run, Christian Business," so long as they don't lie to the government. Probably Trump is getting ready to change that, so lying is allowed. Under Trump's leadership and example, lying may even become the expected behavior, just as has been traditional in some countries in South America. In the old Ecuador, people wouldn't have batted an eye at a Trump University, or rampant nepotism. Now in the "new Ecuador", things are changing much for the better. With each passing day we, the U.S., seem to be becoming more and more like the "old Ecuador."

 

[Covertibility]

I remember these names on the list of so called small businesses liberals would bring up when Bush was promoting his tax cuts to the small business community.

 

[dealmaker]

84 percent of small businesses rely on a manual process
Handwritten invoices are just one of many critical financial processes many small businesses are still doing manually. According to new data from Wakefield Research and Concur, 84 percent of small businesses rely on some kind of manual process every day. At a time when automated systems are typically free and readily available, it’s a shocking figure. (Small Business Trends)

 

[dealmaker]

U.S. small businesses expect continued 2017 growth
U.S. small businesses expect stronger revenue this year and many anticipate adding employees, a generally optimistic read that could support job growth in coming months, the New York Fed reported on Tuesday. In a national survey that covered nearly 16,000 firms with fewer than 500 employees, more than 60 percent said they expect more revenue in 2017 than last year, and around 40 percent anticipated expanding their workforce. (Reuters)