These services are frequently used by midsize companies to get their employees' passports and visas.

Another 18,000 midsize companies - with 100 to 500 employees - also sent products abroad that year.

As a result, only three-quarters of the index is made up of midsize companies.

For years, his firm succeeded by focusing on investing in and taking over midsize companies.

He said midsize companies might be worth a look.

"A midsize company is now $500 million," he said.

Her husband is a painter, working for a midsize company, who made $30,000 last year.

Each beat the Standard & Poor's 400 index of midsize companies last year.

The average startup cost for a midsize company is $2,500, including two to three home pages and an ordering form.

This list classified "midsize companies with the greatest number of job openings listed at the moment."