Small Business Labs

APRIL 7, 2020

Based on an industry by industry analysis (1), our base case estimate is 21% of U.S.    By way of comparison, the SBA chart below shows small business closure and startup rates between 1990-2015.      Notes: (1) Our analysis looked at industry level historical closure rates (see the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 10, 2018

Census non-employer business dataset for this analysis.    The most recent non-employer data is from 2015 and it showed were are about 24.3 So it was a good choice for the analysis done in this study. .  As the report chart below shows, there are about 2.5 million "specialized freelancers" in the U.S. 

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Small Business Labs

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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Small Business Labs

MARCH 4, 2011

.  I follow their work and enjoy their forecasts and analysis. By 2015 that will be 64 percent. By 2015, the purchase of tablets and other forms of media will all but replace the desktop.”"   But 2015 isn't very far away, and change of this magnitude is rare.   

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 9, 2016

One of this year's most interesting findings is the total number of independent workers who work 15 or more hours as independents in a regular workweek declined versus 2015. As the chart below shows, this decline comes after several years of effectively no growth. The reason for this is clear from the data.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

adults earned income in September 2015 via one of the growing number of firms that are part of the sharing, gig or on-demand economy. For another analysis of these studies, see Bloomberg View's Your Uber Driver Probably Has Another Job. According to the study, nearly 1% of U.S. This works out to about 2.5 million Americans.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 2, 2016

  Our 2015 was also too low, but better than 2014.  How coworking is defined is an important attribute of any coworking industry analysis. Interestingly enough, by 2020 some Starbucks stores might be considered coworking spaces.    So we feel pretty good about this forecast.  One last point.

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