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Business Products/Services & Software Claim Highest Numbers of Fast-Growing Companies
Business Products/Services & Software Claim Highest
Numbers of Fast-Growing Companies
Publishing.com founders Christian (left) and Rasmus Mikkelsen (yes,
they’re twins) launched their company as community college students with
goals of avoiding the 9-to-5 rut and traveling the world. They appear to
have accomplished both.
Photo courtesy of Publishing.com via PR Newswire
The past two Site Selection Snapshots have examined this year’s Inc. 5000
to reveal the top states and top U.S. metros and cities by number of firms on
that list.
Today, the final installment of our analysis of these data looks at the Top
10 Inc. 5000 Business Sectors. Here they are:
Sector
No. of Inc. 5000 Firms
1.
Business Products & Services
620
2.
Software
559
3.
Advertising & Marketing
489
4.
IT Services
416
5.
Financial Services
273
6.
Health Services
271
7.
Construction
262
8.
Consumer Products
235
9.
Human Resources
228
10.
Logistics & Transportation
216
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The next five sectors just miss that Top 10, but each can still claim more
than 100 Inc. 5000 firms:
Sector
No. of Inc. 5000 Firms
11.
Real Estate
163
12.
Food & Beverage
139
13.
Manufacturing
129
14.
Government Services
119
15.
Retail
107
Which companies are the fastest growing in these leading sectors?
Philadelphia-based The Surefire Group, No. 17 among all Inc. 5000 companies
with three-year growth of 17,599%, is the leading company in the Business
Products & Services category. The veteran-owned company “seeks to build a
national organization focused on being a part of lifechanging events with
our clients,” including real estate, mortgage and title services as well as
home healthcare. Key to the company’s growth has been its focus on title
and mortgage joint venture programs with brokerages.
The firm’s business approach is reflected in the title of a book by
Surefire Group Founder and CEO Joseph McCabe: “Maintain Your Gear.” As the
company explains, “Maintain your gear is a military saying that defines a
way of life. It is the practice of owning everything in your world to an
extreme degree. It means you are solely responsible for everything that
could possibly make your mission successful.”
The next fastest-growing firm in the Business Products & Services category
is self-publishing company Publishing.com, based in Austin, Texas, No. 19
overall with a three-year growth rate of 16,497%. The organization calls
itself “an education-centric company offering online courses, coaching and
AI-powered software to streamline the publishing process. Founded by twins
Christian and Rasmus Mikkelsen in 2016, we are on a mission to help regular
everyday people create meaningful sources of income through Amazon
self-publishing.”
The company has 60 employees and is looking to fill four more positions as
we speak, all remote. Its founding narrative reads like every digital
nomad’s dream come true:
“While attending community college and working as Chinese food delivery
drivers in New Jersey, twin brothers Christian and Rasmus realized getting
a degree so they could eventually work an unsatisfying 9-5 job the rest of
their lives did not sound like an attractive life plan,” the company
timeline explains. By the end of summer 2017, “Rasmus and Christian were
making enough money from their books to move out of their parents’ house,
so they quit their jobs, dropped out of college, and booked one-way tickets
to Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their biggest motivation for building a business
online was so they could travel and experience all the most amazing places
across the world.”
Audiobooks and a YouTube channel to promote them and promote its methods
stoked company growth. Like Surefire Group’s Joseph McCable, the twins also
published a book about their success: “The Freedom Shortcut.”
The leading company in three-year growth in the No. 2 category of software
is No. 5 overall Inc. 5000 firm Liveshopper Sassie, based in a community
familiar to Site Selection readers: Findlay, Ohio, perennially ranked as
the No. 1 Micropolitan Area in the
nation by number of company facility investment projects.
Like Publishing.com, Liveshopper Sassie came to life in 2016. The company
offers market research software that includes “a plug-in allowing for
geofenced, live feedback from app users.” Its mystery shopping software is
used by over 150 mystery shopping providers, over 18,000 companies and over
3 million shoppers. In addition to its Findlay office, the company
maintains a Boston office employing around 40 people since acquiring
SurfMerchants in 2020.
While business products & services, software and advertising and marketing
lead by number of overall companies in the entire Inc. 5000, they don’t
necessarily top the charts when looking at the overall leaders. Four of the
top 10, six of the top 15 and 11 of the top 50 are in health services or
health products, led by overall No. 1 in the nation CareBridge, founded by
former U.S. Senator Bill Frist and based in Nashville, Tennessee, and No. 6
FlexCare Infusion Centers, based in Oklahoma City. —Adam Bruns and
Daniel Boyer
South Main Street in Findlay, Ohio, home to the No. 5
fastest-growing company in the nation.
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