{"id":70329,"date":"2026-03-29T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/millions-of-boomer-small-business-owners-will-soon-retire-will-their-companies-just-disappear-gene-marks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:00:02","slug":"millions-of-boomer-small-business-owners-will-soon-retire-will-their-companies-just-disappear-gene-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/millions-of-boomer-small-business-owners-will-soon-retire-will-their-companies-just-disappear-gene-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear? | Gene Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s likely, but it also could be a boon for a new generation of entrepreneurs willing to take over established operations<\/p>\n<p>Want to buy my business? It\u2019s been very profitable. I\u2019ve run it for more than 25 years. But no, you don\u2019t want to buy it. Like most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/small-business\">small businesses<\/a> in this country, there\u2019s really nothing of value here.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Small Business Administration, there are approximately 33m small businesses in the US. But fewer than 7m actually employ people. The rest comprise freelancers, side gigs and independent contractors. I\u2019m sure many of these people are making a living. But are they building assets? A brand? Probably not. If that \u201cbusiness owner\u201d suddenly disappears, their business disappears with them. No one wants to buy a business like that. There\u2019s no value.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/29\/boomer-small-business-owner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s likely, but it also could be a boon for a new generation of entrepreneurs willing to take over established operations Want to buy my business? It\u2019s been very profitable. I\u2019ve run it for more than 25 years. But no, you don\u2019t want to buy it. Like most small businesses in this country, there\u2019s really &#8230; <a title=\"Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear? | Gene Marks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/millions-of-boomer-small-business-owners-will-soon-retire-will-their-companies-just-disappear-gene-marks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Millions of boomer small business owners will soon retire. Will their companies just disappear? | Gene Marks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}