Small Business Labs

APRIL 14, 2015

His slideshare presentation How We Measure Success of Our Coworking Space contains much information supporting this point of view.  But it's clear from our preliminary analysis of the results that work/life blending is common among coworking members.   Coworking Freelance Independent workers'

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 22, 2013

  Also, the experts' usage of Big Data made it clear they include data analysis when they use the term. We now define it as: Any use of data and analytics that leads to actionable information where the volume, variety and/or velocity of the analyzed data is greater than normal for the firm/user.  

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We get a lot of questions about what information sources we use in our trend analysis work.    The consulting firm sites are interesting because they do sophisticated analytical work, but usually publish information that's easy to read and digest.    Nice range of articles. . 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 11, 2011

One of our "go to" sources for insights and information on distributed work and telework are Kate Lister and Tom Hamish from the Telework Research Network     In addition to deep knowledge on the topic, they are also data intensive - much appreciated here at Small Business Labs. 

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JUNE 12, 2014

 Key quote from their site on their small business revenue index, which is shown below: This Revenue index is the first to provide current information on small business revenue, and the only source of monthly small business revenue data. It's also leading to more timely and accurate analysis and deeper bahavior insights.

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JULY 23, 2012

 This is the tendency for people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. Confirmation bias is a major factor, as illustrated by this quote: "We also tend to pay attention to information that reinforces what we already believe and dismiss evidence that would require us to change our minds."

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

  Although not new (the trends have been discussed for many years), new information and analysis on these trends continues to surface.   Banks points out that a key reason is the growing educational and employment gender imbalances in the black community.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 22, 2011

  The New York Times has an article covering McKinsey getting hammered over their analysis of the new health care law.    The main reason we don't know what's going to happen with small businesses is we don't have enough information on what the state-run insurance exchanges are going to offer. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Journalism.org's How People Use Tables and What it Means for the Future of News has an excellent analysis of what it means for news and new organizations.  The tablet revolution is part of the broader move to mobile computing and information access through the cloud. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 29, 2013

  The academic fields of behavioral finance and behavioral economics have changed this by including social, psychological and emotional factors in the analysis of economic and financial issues. Both cable networks are masters at twisting data and information to support their prior beliefs.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 5, 2012

.  The Empire Strikes Back with Big Data:  The rise of the Internet and ever cheaper information technology enabled even the smallest of businesses to look, act and compete like a large company.    It also increases their ability to aggressively compete on price.    Economic Trends.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

  Regular computers store information in bits, represented in 0’s and 1’s.  The good news is quantum computing would greatly improve many things, including weather forecasting, financial analysis, logistical planning, drug discovery and curing disease.    So can qubits.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The quick summary of our analysis of the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill on independent workers is: Low and moderate income independent workers would likely be worse off due to the reductions in medicaid and elimination of subsidies provided by the ACA (Obamacare). Several groups outside of government have released analyses of the impact.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2016

"Smart manufacturing is in the midst of transforming the global manufacturing economy" according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Sensors play a key role in creating the information streams upon which smart manufacturing techniques rely. We used to call this biomimicry.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

  So it's both interesting and informative that the NFIB has come out against the proposed Republican tax cuts and jobs act.   Finally, see the Tax Policy Center's analysis of the bill.  According to their press release , the reason is: “This bill leaves too many small businesses behind.

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