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JANUARY 18, 2012

I was reading GigaOm Pro's Global Mobile Subscriber Forecast and noticed that by 2015 the world will have quite a few more global mobile phone subscriptions than people.    As the chart below shows, GigaOm is projecting that there will be a bit over 8 billion global mobile subscriptions in 2015.   

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But as the chart below shows (click to enlarge), by 2015, 57% of new applications were from solopreneurs (orange in the chart).  In the early 2000s, about 60% of all new business applications were from businesses planning on having employees.    The other 40% were from solopreneurs who did not plan to hire employees.

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percent from 24,331,403 in 2015 to 24,813,048 in 2016. trillion in 2015 to $1.17 Census recently released the 2016 nonemployer business statistics. Key quote from their press release : nonemployer establishments increased 2.0 Receipts increased 1.5 percent from $1.15 trillion in 2016.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Between 2001 and 2015 median U.S. In 2015 7 million of renter households were severely burdened, which is defined as spending more than half of their income on rent. The main cause of this is rents have been rising much faster than household income. rents rose from $512 a month to $678, a 32 percent increase.

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billion in 2015 to 3.5 This data means Asia's share of the global middle class will grow from 45% in 2015 to 63% in 2030. According to  Asia: Leaning In , a report from the giant global investment management firm KKR, Asia's middle class will increase from 1.4 billion by 2030.

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By comparison, just 15% of Americans said they had used these services in late 2015, and one-third had never heard of ride-hailing before." adult population today uses ride-hailing apps on a weekly basis – a share that is largely unchanged from 2015, when 3% of Americans reported being weekly riders." Today, 36% of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Volume sales growth slowed from 13% in 2015 to 6% and sales growth declined from 16% in 2015 to about 10% in 2016. million barrels of beer in 2015. This was about 5% of the entire craft beer production in 2015.  .  More impressively, craft and micro brewers 2016 sales totaled $23.5 billion, which was 21.9%

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MAY 30, 2017

Census  released their 2015 data on non-employer businesses last week.  million from 2014 to 2015. Since In 2015 they generated over $1.1 percent from 362,445 in 2014 to 577,809 in 2015, according to U.S. billion in 2015.   Overall, the number of U.S. trillion in gross receipts. 

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

We first reported on bleisure travel , which is the the blending of business and leisure travel, back in 2015.  Back in 2015 bleisure travel was considered something that millennials mostly did.   A According to the folks at the expense reporting and management firm, SAP Concur, it continues to gain popularity. 

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JANUARY 23, 2020

We've covered the annual JWT Intelligence trends report since it first came out in 2015.  As industry analysts with a data bent, we're not the best people to decide what is and isn't beautiful. But we vote against this trend.   Their reports are always interesting, fun to read have great pictures.

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   By way of comparison, the SBA chart below shows small business closure and startup rates between 1990-2015.      On average about 8% of small businesses closed each year between 1990 and 2015 and 10% closed at the height of the Great Recession in 2009.

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  In 2014- 2015 the concept of "platform cooperatisim" was widely discussed in sharing economy circles.   .   Braintrust argues that by being a coop, their freelancers will earn more and have better control over their work than they would using a traditional for-profit marketplace.  

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

  New York's 2015 (latest available data) median household income was $60,850 , about the same as it was in 2000. at $93,294 (2015 data). 's median household income was only $49,400, but it grew by a stunning 88% between 2000 and 2015.    The rest of the top 10 for 2015 are listed in the chart below. 

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

This was the 2nd year of this study and the 2015 study used the same methodology. In 2015 11 companies participated as partners and 8 firms participated both years. The overall results for 2016 are consistent with the results from 2015. 

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MARCH 29, 2016

According to the Brewers Association , small and independent craft brewers continued to gain share on beer industry giants in 2015. Key quote from their press release: In 2015, craft brewers produced 24.5  Also, 2015's craft beer growth was despite an overall decline in beer sales in 2015.

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  The company reported $795 million in revenue for 2016, up from $341 million in revenue for 2015. It lost $55 million in 2016 compared to $47 million in 2015. It reports having $390 million in revenue in 2016, up 71% over 2015. Blue Apron , a meal kit delivery service company, has filed for an IPO. 

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  But as Christensen points out in his 2015 HBR article What is Disruptive Innovation : as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others.

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YTD in 2015 alone. billion YTD 2015. CB Insights Unless You're Uber or Airbnb, The Mobile On-Demand Funding Boom Has Cooled covers the fact that Uber and Airbnb have attracted large sums of venture capital - $6.6 The rest of the on-demand economy has also done pretty well - $1.67

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The communication arts also had a high number of self-employed workers relative to salaried employees: In 2015, there were 0.6 In the visual and performing arts, there were over 2.3 self-employed persons in Los Angeles County for every salaried worker. self-employed persons in Los Angeles County for every salaried employee."

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

According to data from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independent study , the percentage of U.S. full-time independent workers/freelancers who report having health insurance increased from 64% in 2013 to 82% in 2015.  According to a Q1 2015 Gallup study , 88% of Americans have health insurance. in an average work week. 

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JULY 2, 2018

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) dug through social security data and found the number of self-employed grew between 2000 and 2015 (the most recent data available).    Their chart below shows the increase in share of earners reporting self-employment earnings.

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This is up from just 37% in 2015. But the study chart below (click to enlarge) really jumped out at us. It shows that 52% of the full-time employees surveyed said they plan to postpone their retirement due to their financial situation. But even we were surprised by these numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Key quote from the article: Since the Great Recession, the number of STEM majors in bachelor’s degree-and-above programs has mushroomed, going from 388,000 graduates in 2009-10 to 550,000 in 2015-16—43% growth. The article also points out the number of humanities graduates has slightly declined.

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  The most recent non-employer data is from 2015 and it showed were are about 24.3 Fiverr and Rockbridge analyzed the non-employer industry data to develop their estimates for the number of "specialized freelancers" (see the report for more details on their methodology, which is quite clever).  million U.S.

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million in 2015. According to research conducted as part of the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence study this group has a medium income slightly above $70,000 and 1.3 .  As the chart below from the HBR's Your Company Needs Independent Workers shows, the number of U.S. million in 2011 to 6.4 that focus on consumers.

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families with more than $5 million in investable assets exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2015.    The Penta article also has an interesting chart (below) showing the growth in numbers of really wealthy people from 2010 to 2015. The number of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Key quote from their article How to Position Your Company in the 3D Value Chain : In 2015, the entire 3D-printing market—which includes products made from plastics, ceramics, and metals—totaled $5 billion. .  The elite strategy consulting firm BCG also thinks 3D printing is about to take off. BCG expects this market to triple by 2020.

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But by 2015 this share had fallen to 45%.  .  Not surprisingly, the share of good jobs going to those without a college degree has fallen over time. In 1991 60% of good jobs went to those without a college degree.   The report goes on to break down which industries produce good jobs and who has them by demographic group. 

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MARCH 12, 2015

Continuing with futurist week, today we're covering The World Economic Forum's recently released list of their  Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2015. The 2015 list is below and the links take you the WEF page describing each trend in more detail: 1. Fuel cell vehicles.  Next-generation robotics.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Federal Reserve study  2015 Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Non-Employer Firms  also found a high rate of contract worker usage by non-employers. We also found these firms spent about $95 billion hiring other independents over the past year. This is the equivalent of hiring about 2.3 million full-time workers.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

Key quote from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independence report: In 2015 36% of independent workers reported spending about $101 billion in the past year hiring other independent workers on a contract basis. This is roughly the equivalent of employing 2.4 million full-time workers via traditional hiring.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

About 3,200 freelancers, most with backgrounds in the life or physical sciences, sell services such as statistical review and literature searches through the online platform  Kolabtree.com , which is based in London and started in 2015. 

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Oil, of course, fell to below $40 per barrel in 2015, and as we pointed out in our 2015 trends this had both positive and negative effects.  The collapse of China's growth and a weak European Union economy led to a steep declines in most commodities prices in 2015, with the Bloomberg commodities index falling 26%.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And Airbnb only had 250 business customers in total in 2015. .  Upwork, for example, pointed out in one of their studies last year that over 80% of their revenue came from small businesses. WeWork's  WeWork's customers were almost exclusively freelancers and startups as recently as 2 years ago. Three things.

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JULY 22, 2019

  Other examples include autonomous car forecasts, Internet of Things forecasts back in the early 2000's and again in 2010 through 2015 and pretty much all the forecasts that A.I. The vast majority of these forecasts at that time simply ignored the wide range of barriers to broad adoption drones faced. 

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JUNE 18, 2015

         They are also forecasting that in 2015 there will be there will be more than 2 billion smartphone users and about 1 billion tablet users worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

 The global middle class reached 3 billion in 2015 and could surpass 4 billion by 2021 ,  And as we recently pointed out , this surging middle class is happening mostly in Asia and other developing regions of the world. over the prior year. This is just the beginning of the small business export boom.

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