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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

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Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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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, the MBO Partners State of Independence study showed that in 2013 26% of all solopreneur firms - roughly 4.6 small business starts. micropreneurs is growing.

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