Most Profitable Businesses to Start

摘要

Who cares about revenues if there's nothing left over after you've generated them? With the help of Sageworks, a Raleigh, N.C. private-company-data provider, Forbes.com has divined the ten most and least profitable types of businesses-on a pretax basis-that hungry entrepreneurs might hope to launch. The data are based on financial statements from nearly 100,000 companies, most with sales under $10 million, bucketed according to IRS classifications. Two clear conclusions: Specialized training pays off, making tortillas does not.