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a lifestyle business

French translation: garder une petite affaire

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English term or phrase:	a lifestyle business
French translation:	garder une petite affaire
Entered by:	Françoise Pertat

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06:25 Jun 17, 2009

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English term or phrase: a lifestyle business

"You must first decide whether you want to grow or simply be a lifestyle business. For you to have a meaningful exit strategy, your company has to develop an income stream which is stable, sustainable, renewable, and which can be readily quantified"

Françoise Pertat KudoZ activity Questions: 102 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 0 France
Local time: 21:15

garder une petite affaire

Explanation:
Suggestion pour contraster avec "grow" (ou bien : "si vous voulez croître/vous développer ou rester petit). Inspiré de cet article qui parle du "lifestyle business" :

En affaires, peut-on être petit et heureux?
http://www.michaelcarpentier.com/index.php/2008/en-affaires-...

J'ai trouvé aussi "auto-emploi" :
1. Le « lifestyle business » ou auto-emploi : une action sur l’environnement du créateur et de son entreprise

Pour les créations d’entreprises qui ont vocation à rester très petites (sont inclus dans cette catégorie les créateurs aidés au titre d’une politique de discrimination positive ou d’aménagement du territoire ), les outils principaux permettant de susciter des projets et de réduire le taux de mortalité sont la simplification des formalités administratives
www.cgm.org/rapports/hirtzman/benchmark-pme/Rapportdesynthe...

Ça ressemble fortement à auto-entreprise, mais c'est moins marqué "actualité française", je trouve...

Selected response from:

Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 21:15

Grading comment

Merci Stéphanie.
Bien sûr qu'on peut être petit et heureux
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

auto-entrepreneur

Auqui

une affaire sans ambition particulière

Beila Goldberg

monter votre auto-entreprise

FX Fraipont

garder une entreprise à taille humaine

Alexandre Chetrite

garder une petite affaire

Stéphanie Soudais

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

auto-entrepreneur

Explanation:
concept où l'ambition de gagner énormément n'est pas le but, juste un projet professionnel assimilé à un projet de vie.

Auqui
Local time: 21:15
Native speaker of:

French,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 6

28 mins confidence:

monter votre auto-entreprise

Explanation:
"La rédaction, pour être efficace, édite un dossier lequel vous permet de monter votre auto entreprise sans erreur. Ce dossier, de 240 pages, vous apporte ..."
http://www.montermonentreprise.com/autoentrepreneur.html

"Lifestyle businesses are businesses that are set up and run by their founders primarily with the aim of sustaining a particular level of income and no more; or to provide a foundation from which to enjoy a particular lifestyle.

Some types of enterprise are more accessible than others to the would-be lifestyle business person. Those requiring extensive capital (for example: car manufacturing) are difficult to launch and sustain on a lifestyle basis; others such as small creative industries businesses are more practical for sole practitioners or small groups such as husband-and-wife teams.

In conventional business terms, lifestyle businesses typically have limited scalability and potential for growth because such growth would destroy the lifestyle for which their owner-managers set them up. However, lifestyle businessess can and do win awards and provide satisfaction to their owners and customers. If sufficient high-quality creative producers begin to naturally cluster together, such as in Brighton, England, during the 1990s, the perception of a place can be radically changed (see Porter's cluster)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business

FX Fraipont
Belgium
Local time: 21:15
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 745

5 hrs confidence:

une affaire sans ambition particulière

Explanation:
Si ce n'est de gagner sa vie, sans trop de stress et qui permet de garder le mode de vie que l'on affectionne.
L'opposé de celui qui a les dents longues, qui veut se faire sa place au soleil et qui y sacrifiera beaucoup de choses.

En language familier : une affaire pépère...

La phrase opose plus deux façons de vivre son entreprise que les concepts.

Beila Goldberg
Belgium
Local time: 21:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 86

5 hrs confidence:

be a lifestyle business

garder une petite affaire

Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 21:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 409

Grading comment

Merci Stéphanie.
Bien sûr qu'on peut être petit et heureux

8 hrs confidence:

garder une entreprise à taille humaine

Explanation:
C'est le choix entre rester petit (entreprise à taille humaine) ou grandir en taille et faire du chiffre à tout prix.

Alexandre Chetrite
France
Local time: 21:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French

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