so i started a small business.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Small businesses are privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships that have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as \"small\" in terms of being able to apply for government support and qualify for preferential tax policy varies depending on the country and industry. Small businesses range from fifteen employees under the Australian \"Fair Work Act 2009\", fifty employees according to the definition used by the European Union, and fewer than five thousand employees, to qualify for many U.S. Small Business Administration programs. While small businesses can also be classified according to other methods, such as annual revenues, shipments, sales, assets, or by annual gross or net revenue or net profits, the number of employees is one of the most widely used measures. Small businesses in many countries include service or retail operations such as convenience stores, small grocery stores, bakeries or delicatessens, hairdressers or tradespeople (e.g., carpenters, electricians), restaurants, guest houses, photographers, very small-scale manufacturing, and Internet-related businesses such as web design and computer programming.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Small businesses are some of my favorites to frequent, since they are usually more local and have fewer employees."}, {"role": "user", "content": "And they tend to be more personable :) Do you have any small businesses in particular you frequent?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it's hard to distinguish sometimes, since in Australia they count fifteen employees as a small business."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the standard in the United States as a comparison?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In the U.S. fewer than five thousand employees is a small business."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, signifcant then. Is there anything else interesting you know about small businesses?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it's also different in the European Union, where they consider fifty employees to be a small business."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, interesting. That's a wide variance among the three."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know, right? Small businesses can also be classified based on annual revenues or shipments."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess each country really does operate differently lol. "}]