The great majority of the roughly 24 million private individuals estimated to have gone into business between 1980 and 2005 were ordinary folk with very small capital – usually obtained by pooling the savings of family members and perhaps friends.
La gran mayoría de las cerca de 24 millones de personas que, se estima, comenzaron a hacer negocios entre 1980 y 2005 fueron ciudadanos comunes y corrientes con un capital muy pequeño, usualmente obtenido reuniendo los ahorros de familiares y, tal vez, amigos.