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TechCrunch's 5 Startup Trends for the 2020s

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How do we reduce costs while ensuring that care is accurate and delivered expeditiously? While enterprise data infrastructure has improved at least the management of these databases, it’s still amazing how little data enriches our decisions, offers new avenues for analysis, and quite frankly, just makes our lives better on a day-to-day basis.

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Renewable Energy to Pass Coal for U.S. Electricity Generation in 2021

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According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) , renewable energy sources will pass coal in terms of U.S. This even though many of the costs of coal (pollution, worker health problems, etc.) electricity generation in 2021.    The fastest-growing of these sources by far are wind and solar. . 

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Study: Uber Drivers on Average Earn $11.77 Per Hour

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  The study -  Uber and the Labor Market  - is based on a detailed analysis of driver income and expenses.  Their costs also vary because they drive different types of vehicles and pay different amounts for gas, oil, maintenance, insurance and taxes (all of which tend to vary by geography).

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Work is Going Hybrid and it Will Have Major Economic and Societal Impacts

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Surveys conducted in the six months  since most people started working from home show that less than 10% of Americans actually want to work remotely all the time, according to a new Barclays analysis. So it looks like the hybrid model is going to be the winner, at least over the next few years.  

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Do Uber Drivers Only Make $3.37 Per Hour? (The Quick Answer is No)

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The only problem was their analysis was flawed, something they conceded this week.  This means rideshare drivers have different cost structures. So using a set of average costs - as the MIT study and our study did - also leads to imprecise results. per hour was widely covered in the press.

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Disruption in the Industy Analyst Industry

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.  There are several worth noting: Industry Analyst/Journalism Hybrid : These are firms that are augmenting or replacing their traditional advertising based business models by adding industry analysis and/or research services.  We're subscribers and find their work well worth this modest cost.

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Intuit Future of Small Business Report

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Technological advances such as machine learning are taking the complexity out of data analysis, providing small businesses with the ability to make faster, better decisions.  Online options range from sponsored photos to in-stream video ads, and many of them are fairly low-cost with sub-$100 options readily available.

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