Small Business Ventures Franchise

business ventures
(Business venture) Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is provided as seed funding to early-stage, high-potential, growth companies and more often after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred as series A round) in the interest of generating a return through an
(business venture) to set out on a venture by placing capital and/or time at risk; an operation of enterprise with an indication that there is a degree of risk involved; a commercial enterprise (one connected with buying and selling of goods and/or services); an industrial enterprise (one

franchise
An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products
an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
grant a franchise to
a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
An authorization given by a league to own a sports team
A business or service given such authorization to operate

small
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
the slender part of the back
Small items of clothing, esp. underwear
on a small scale; "think small"