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Fastest-Growth Industries for U.S. Small Businesses in 2012. 1  Residential building construction: 14.77 percent. 2  Building custom software and servers for businesses: 14.29 percent. 3  Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers: 13.75 percent.  Management, scientific, and technical consulting services: 12.31 percent.
Here Are the 10 Fastest-Growing Companies in San Diego. Sixty-four companies on this year's Inc. 5000 list call California's second-largest city home, but these 10 are making more than waves. San Diego might not get as big a share of the startup spotlight as Silicon Valley or Los Angeles, but it still has a business scene with plenty to brag about. Sixty-four of the 5,000 companies on Inc.'s 2015 list of the fastest-growing companies in America hail from San Diego. In addition, the southern California city has the fourth-largest number of women-led companies on the 2015 Inc. 5000, with 12.