Private homes rather than in a factory, with thetools and other means of production individually owned. Often products producedby a cottage industry are hand-made and/or unique in some distinctive way.Cottage industry products are often identified with an area or even with aspecific family. Often a cottage industry is run by members of a single family,although this is not necessarily the case. A cottage industry can also be aloosely or informally organized group with each member working out of their ownhome. While there is often a specialized interest in the non-mass-producedproducts of a cottage industry, a cottage industry often faces difficultchallenges in distributing its products. Hundreds of thousands of people starttheir own businesses every year, and untold more dream about the possibility ofbecoming their own bosses. While entrepreneurship has its many potentialrewards, it also carries unique challenges.