Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2014

 The size of the "lolly" represents the size of the industry and the bottom of the stem shows the mix in 2007.  All industries had a greater share of PTER workers in 2013 than in 2007 (all the lollipops point upwards). Very cool chart and a great way to visually represent data.

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2013 2007 Restaurants 2012 100

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 28, 2014

But we consider two to be of the greatest importance to us in our trend spotting and analysis work. For example, we started researching the coworing movement when it first started back in 2007. The study of emerging fringe groups or edge activities, called extremities by the authors, is one of our key research methods.

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2007 International 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2015

.  We first wrote about this almost a decade ago (and we were by no means the first) and some of our first blog posts  --way back in 2007 -- are on these topics. This is done by thorough data collection and rigorous analysis, both of which require a lot of time - often years in the case of the data. 

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2007 Interviewing AT&T 100