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25 ideas for starting your own business

You want to start your own business, but don’t yet know in what. KVK does not have a list of ideas in which you can best start a business. However, you can get inspired by the more than 130,000 people who started their own business in the first half of 2022. Here are the 25 most popular business activities.

If you want to start your own business, it is always good to start from your own strengths. What are you good at and what would someone else hire you for? In the first half of 2022, to be exact, 130,547 companies were registered in the KVK Commercial Register. Most of them have started a webshop. Organization consulting and construction are also well represented in the top 25 business activities. Maybe there is something for you among them. Or maybe you will find that niche market you have been looking for.

 

Top 25 business activities

 

Activity

Number of starters

1

Webshop*

10.330

2

Organization consulting

7.474

3

Miscellaneous work on construction and remodeling of homes and businesses

7.020

4

Practices of midwives, physiotherapists, psychotherapists and other paramedical practices and alternative healers

5.434

5

Various forms of and provision of education

4.592

6

Day care for the disabled and elderly, home care and welfare services

4.367

7

Hairdressing and beauty care

3.396

8

Event catering

3.059

9 Graphic design, interior design, interior design, design of fashion items

2.896

10

Outpatient youth care, social work and counseling and welfare work

2.520

11

Development, production and publishing of software, such as security software

2.418

12

Hardware and software advice and consultancy

2.297

13

Engineering firms, technical design and consulting.

2.231

14

Creators of creative arts, such as writers, composers, painters, sculptors and restorers

2.159

15

Sports and recreational education

2.084

16

Freight transport by road, driver services and courier services

2.082

17

Public relations agencies

2.073

18

Consulting firms in all kinds of fields (from valuations to wine advice and from coaching athletes and artists to advice on design games)

1.830

19

Interior cleaning of buildings

1.829

20

Design, photography, translation and other consultancy services

1.816

21

Performing arts and entertainment

1.806

22

Restaurants, cafeterias and the like, and ice cream parlors

1.800

23

Childcare

1.592

24

Construction carpentry

1.591

25

Electrical construction installation 1,550

(Source: KVK Trade Register – January to June 2022)

 

* The webshop is still popular with starters. Although the number of starters with a webshop decreases considerably compared to 2021. Then there were 16,343 starting webshops in the first half year. Especially during the corona crisis, the number of webshops grew enormously. But one webshop is not the other. Under the business activity webshops you can therefore classify different activities. These are the most established webshops in the first half of 2022:

 

Top 5 starting webshops

 

Webshop business activity

Number of starters

1

General assortment and other non-food

3.284

2

Clothing and fashion accessories

2.405

3

House and garden articles

2.142

4

Food and drugstore products

1.054

5

Leisure articles

802

(Source: KVK Trade Register – January to June 2022)

 

KVK regional data

Would you like to know how things stand in your region, for example, the number of start-ups and established entrepreneurs in a particular industry? Then take a look at KVK Region data.


 

 

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