14% of young people aged 18–24 plan to open a business in the next two years. — follows from a survey of the services “Avito Works” and “Avito Advertising”

At the same time, 45% of young people of this age are also considering starting their own business. And 4% already have their own business.

Among those who are already running a business or considering such an opportunity, the most popular areas are IT, Internet and telecom (11%), art, entertainment and mass media (11%), as well as online trading (10%).

The main motive for starting your own business was the desire to work for yourself and be independent: 35% of young people aged 18–24 answered this way.

On average, young people call 1.1 million rubles a comfortable starting capital. At the same time, 23% think that it is possible to launch with 100,000 rubles.

More than 1,000 people took part in the survey.