Small Business Labs
JULY 19, 2021
Sometimes we post articles on topics few people are interested in. This is such an article. But you should be interested because the economic and labor data collected by government agencies no longer provide the information we need to properly understand and manage the U.S.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 1, 2012
Articles include: Why People Want to Be Micro-Entrepreneurs : From Fast Company Co.Exist, this article covers a survey by micro-task site Fivvr on why people want to be micropreneurs. The top reasons are job independence, frustration with the 9 to 5 grind and the money.
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Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 10, 2020
The global marketing agency Wunderman Thompson's article Ghost Kitchens covers the growing popularity of delivery-first dining and the related growth of ghost kitchens, which are also called cloud kitchens. The Wunderman Thompson article does a nice job of covering the trend, so we'll not bother rehashing their article.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
The New York Times article How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank nicely covers the " growing movement of young professionals who are intently focused on quitting their jobs forever." Key article quote on the main drivers behind the movement: "Millennials especially have embraced this so-called FIRE movement.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 17, 2017
The Dog Agency is a talent management company focusing exclusively on animal influencers. By Key quote from the New York Times article This Instagram Dog Wants to Sell You a Lint Roller : There is now a talent agency based in New York that represents social-media celebrity animals. .
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
"Non-employer" is the terms used by government agencies to describe businesses that have a business owner, but no traditional (W2) full or part-time employees. There's also a number of reasons why employer SMB numbers aren't increasing, but it's a longer story and we'll go into it in a later article.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 22, 2016
. Research by the London School of Economics finds that a new type of market intermediary, which they call agencies, are responsible for a stunning 27% of all workers hired at least once on Upwork. This increases the likelihood that an employer will hire members of the agency. A good example is Airbnb.
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