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by nostromo 3894 days ago
Not true. If you work for yourself and you're losing money and you get polled by the CPS, you would rightly report that you are self-employed, and you would be counted as working.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

It doesn't matter if there are investors or a profit.