Small Business Labs

JULY 12, 2018

million, up from 40.9 These are independent workers who would prefer a traditional job (cluster analysis is used to identify this group). Emergent Research (that's us) contributes to this study. million in 2017.    The increase was driven by a the continued growth of Occasional Independent Workers.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Intuit recently announced QuickBooks Capital , a new small business lending product that provides users of QuickBooks access to small business loans up to about $35,000. This add ups to over 28 billion data points Intuit can use in its credit model. (An 60 percent of QuickBooks Capital customers would likely not get a loan elsewhere.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 31, 2018

He sums up his analysis by saying the U.S. Second, Americans bear the risks of paying those unaffordable costs to an extreme degree, bearing the risks that institutions should, and so those risks are now ruinously high. " About the same time Haque's essay came out, The Atlantic's cover story was The 9.9%  The 9.9%

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Work is shifting from jobs to tasks : Companies are chopping up jobs into bite-size tasks and giving them to the best person available. Spend Matters analyst Andrew Karpie's article Upwork Launches Talent Services Division to Enable Enterprise Use of Online Freelance Workforce provides an excellent analysis of this new effort.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 16, 2014

Also released recently was Business Insider's analysis of the amount of venture capital flowing into the Bitcoin industry. It shows that despite setbacks and negative press, the Bitcoin industry continues its rapid expansion. They point out it's similar to the amount of money raised by Internet startups in the mid- 1990s.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 17, 2013

Followers believe when skirts get shorter, the stock market goes up.   An example of a spurious correlation caused by a third variable is the fact that ice cream sales and accidental drownings are highly correlated - they tend to both move up and down in a consistent pattern.   When they get longer, it goes down. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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.  per year, up from just about 2% growth over the prior decade. The report chart below highlights the forecast that the number of U.S.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 14, 2015

  We're in the process of finishing up research project on this topic and we'll be releasing our results in May at the GCUC coworking conference. 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

JUNE 9, 2016

This is especially true for the group we call "reluctant independents" We use cluster analysis to identify this group and on average they are more likely to not have chosen to become independent, more likely to be less satisfied than average being independent and more likely to say they would prefer a traditional job. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 30, 2014

About 875,000 more households are now made up of young adult renters than would have existed if the 2008-era trend had held steady, according to an analysis of census data by Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia, a real estate marketing website. Demographics'

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The growing use of labormetrics - a buzz word that's a play on sabermetrics , baseball's term for the use of statistics and empirical analysis - is interesting to us on two levels. But it's also increasingly showing up in research on why people like their jobs.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 2, 2016

The industry is growing and hybridizing so fast , we're having a hard time keeping up with it.  How coworking is defined is an important attribute of any coworking industry analysis. Coworking is booming. A major recession could, of course, have a major impact on the industry - and potentially make this forecast too high.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

.   BTW, this quote pretty much sums up 1 of the 4 key reasons more firms are targeting small businesses. Enterprises have gotten so good at contract analysis and negotiation that it's very hard to wring profits out of this segment. . These are: 1. and global economy. Google, eBay and Intuit are good examples. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 10, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Increase in Unemployment Rate Good News | Main | 1 in 8 Consumers Forecasted to Cut or Eliminate Cable TV in 2010 » May 10, 2010 Disruption and the Analyst Industry I signed up for GigaOm Pro  recently.    It costs $79 a year to subscribe.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Let me say up front our research indicates moonlighting- working 2 or more jobs - has become much more common in the U.S.   Pew's analysis is based on data from the U.S. over the past decade.  But not everyone agrees. The article says there are about 6.8 million Americans working 2 or more jobs, which is about 4.6%

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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. A very good overview of behavioral issues that trip people up is  10 Behavioral Pitfalls: A Primer from Morningstar.

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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 lack of information is, in our opinion, the key reason why the various studies are coming up with such different results.    McKinsey suggests that 30% or more U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2010

.  In March, the BLS released their annual analysis of the number and characteristics of foreign born U.S. workers.    This is little changed from 2008, but up from 14.5%   Hispanics make up just over 50.5%   Again, this is little changed from 2008 but up from 49% in 2004. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 5, 2012

  Big Data – the collection, manipulation and analysis of large datasets – allows large companies to look, act and compete like a small business by using data and analytics to provide personalized products and services.    It also increases their ability to aggressively compete on price.   

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 27, 2017

  It pushes against bureaucratic overthinking, analysis-paralysis, and excessive whiteboarding.    We're finishing up a deep dive research project on the risk and attitude profile differences between independent workers and those with traditional jobs. The results are fascinating.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 27, 2011

As part of this task, we keep up with a lot of trends which at first glance don't seem directly related to small business.    First, a lot of trends that don't look important to small businesses right now end up being very important in the future.    We do this for two reasons. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

 This is the 3rd year we've worked with MBO Partners on this study and it's the most in-depth analysis of the independent workforce (freelancers, the self-employed, etc.) million, up from 16.9 The 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence Report was released today. we're aware of. million in 2012.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

  The qualitative analysis looks OK: " a futurist specializing in workplace issues, says pressure on baby boomers wanting to retire will be so great that they will be pulled back into the labor market. Even so, he says, older workers won’t show up in large enough numbers to fill the millions of jobs available.

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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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