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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

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  We expect this form of “mobile commerce” will take off in 2013 as personal service firms, retailers of all kinds and even industrial firms take advantage of the lower costs, increased flexibility and high levels of customer satisfaction that mobile business provides.  billion from Angels in 2011

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Is the U.S. Becoming Less Entrepreneurial?

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But in many cases they use contractors, freelancers, outsourced services and other forms of contingent workers instead of traditional employees.  For example, Census data shows there were about 405,000 new employer businesses (businesses with at least 1 traditional employee) started in 2011. micropreneurs is growing.

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