A very small business, usually defined as "a business with fewer than 10 staff". Sometimes defined as "a business with fewer than 5 staff". 89% of all UK businesses have fewer than 5 employees. Some Social Enterprise such as development trusts run programmes to assist Micro-enterprise.
a small business with five or fewer employees,one of whom owns the enterprise
small businesses usually run by one person
A small-scale enterprise that usually employs fewer than ten people and may operate ‘informally'.
A business that is "smaller-than-small." Operated by a person on a full- or part-time basis, usually out of a home, e.g., carpenters, day-care providers, crafts persons, caterers.
Broadly stated, a micro-business is a business started with as little capital as possible, or less capital than would be usual for a business. More precisely, the term is often used in Australia to refer to a business with a single owner-operator, and no employees.