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Mastercard on the Sharing Economy

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This would mean it would be  16 times as large in 2025 as it is today. The Mastercard report is a little hazy about what they are including and not including in their sharing economy definition. .  Second, a 37% CAGR would mean this segment would double every 2 years. That's a lot of projected growth.

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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

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A study recently issued by eBay reports that in the last year 190,000 U.S.   According to data from the 2014 MBO Partners State of Independence report, 13% of full time independent workers - roughly 2.2 Of these, about 600,000 report at least one-third of their annual revenue comes from outside of the U.S.

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Freelancers Embrace Health Insurance

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full-time independent workers/freelancers who report having health insurance increased from 64% in 2013 to 82% in 2015.    Three quarters of full-time independents report working more than 30 hours in an average work week.     This increase in coverage means that roughly 3.2 in an average work week. 

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Beyond BRICs - A New Emerging Markets Blog from the Financial Times

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  For example 1-Million Plus Cities has some greate charts and points out that in 2025 the world is expected to have 546 cities with over 1 million residents.  In addition to quality reporting, one of the reasons we follow the FT is their European perspective.    In 1950 there were only 75.  

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The Car as a Mobile Office

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 Back in 2007 we discussed the growing role cars would play as mobile offices in the Intuit Future of Small Business report The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. We've long followed the trends toward connected cars.  For example, Intel just announced a $100 million connected car venture fund.    

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Futurist Faith Popcorn on the Future of Work

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  Popcorn is probably best known - at least for those of us old enough to remember - for her best selling 1991 trends forecast book The Popcorn Report.  And her vision of the future of work out to 2025, which is broadly described in her presentation summary slide shown below, definitely gets you thinking.

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Airbnb's Economic Empowerment Initiative

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The report includes a forecast saying this will grow to 770,000 in 2025. Using a standard economic impact model based on Implan multipliers , NERA found Airbnb host activity created about 130,000 U.S. jobs in 2016.

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