The transition process in Albania, as in other ex-communist countries, stopped theenterprise development. The increasing number of small and medium enterprises is themost promising consequence of the transition process.Several researches in western countries have demonstrated that entrepreneurshipinvolves objective and subjective factors and is interrelated with environmental objectivefactors and individual subjective ones.Our research examines clear characteristics of the businesses’ analysis, theperformance of the entrepreneurs themselves (their background and personalcharacteristics), their motivation to start a business and the perceptions of the differentcharacteristics and the aspects of the businesses they run.