Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2014

There's an active debate going on in academia, think tanks and businesses around who is better positioned to win in the new economy, big companies or small companies. Larger companies are increasing their market share, so that most sectors of the economy are becoming more concentrated.   So which side is winning?

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The article The Contingent Workforce Management Program of 2016 provides their view of how corporate contingent labor programs will evolve over the next couple of years. Key quote from the article: In 2009, the estimated percentage of contingent workforce utilization within the average enterprise hovered around 16% or 17%. The

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 17, 2021

But as the New York Times article What is a Flying Car points out, the long term dream of flying cars continues to get closer: That dream, most experts agree, is a long way from reality. Dozens of companies are now building these aircraft, and three recently agreed to go public in deals that value them as high as $6 billion. 

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

Their article Five Truths about International Business in the Middle Market covers survey research on the exporting and importing by U.S. firms with between $10 million and $500 million in sales (midmarket companies).    Barlow doesn't include historical data in their article. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 13, 2021

Axios' Tech giants have all become creator companies covers the various ways digital creators can earn money on a variety of tech platforms,  Their excellent summary chart is below (click to enlarge). The article also makes a good point about the diversity of digital creators.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2012

10 Companies Radically Changing the Way We Work , from Business Insider, is interesting on several levels. First off, it's a nice list of innovative companies. But what really hit was 4 of the 10 companies listed fall into the freelance, independent work, mobile work arena.  We agree.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

.  As the Financial Times article Airbnb and DoorDash IPOs leave gig economy issues unresolved points out, most of these firms are still not profitable.    Key quote on the combined losses of Airbnb, DoorDash, Uber and Lyft:  But that has not translated into profits.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 21, 2021

The article chart below, which shows the 7 largest companies in the world by market capitalization, really jumped out at us.    The reason is small businesses and independent workers are important business partners for all 6 ecosystem companies.  McKinsey's Ecosystem 2.0:

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 26, 2021

   As the article chart below shows (click to enlarge), 7 Caribbean islands now have special, longer term visas for people choosing to work remotely from these islands (Bermuda isn't in the Caribbean, but it's close enough - and tropical enough -  to be included in this list).   But there is some. 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Both the New York Times and the BBC have recent articles claiming that flying cars, in the form of flying taxis, will soon be common.  Both Ford Motor Company and the Curtis Aircraft Company built flying car prototypes as early as 1915.    And it could be true this time.   So far, they've been wrong.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Synthetic biology researchers and companies around the world are harnessing the power of nature to solve problems in medicine, manufacturing and agriculture." But a number of new bioengineering technologies and advances, and especially CRISPR , are enabling a wave of new synthetic biology products and companies. 

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 22, 2021

The New York Times article You’ve Heard of Ghost Kitchens. Meet the Ghost Franchises covers the growing number of companies franchising food concepts to existing restaurants.    Or we should say they buy the burgers from the franchise company,  Virtual Dining Concepts.  So they buy his burgers.  

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Crunchbase's VCs Will Spend Billions More To Make The Metaverse A Reality covers the growing amounts of venture capital going to companies involved in the metaverse. According to the article,  metaverse related companies "have raised nearly $10.4 billion over the same period last year.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 30, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Yahoo CEO on Local Content | Main | Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement » June 30, 2010 Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery The QPS Employment Group is a staffing and recruiting firm operating in Wisconsin and Illinois.  Kudos to QPS for their survey work. 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 23, 2010

» August 23, 2010 The Growth of Private Company Stock Exchanges Investing in venture-backed private companies used to be by invitation only.  But this has changed over the last few years as private company stock exchanges have emerged.    - Facebook has a value of about $25.5

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Stripe  is one of the most successful and highly valued fintech companies.    They provide widely adopted online payments infrastructure products and services - including to creator economy companies. Their Stripe Connect platform  is used by most of the creator economy platforms and marketplaces.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

» August 23, 2010 The Growth of Private Company Stock Exchanges Investing in venture-backed private companies used to be by invitation only.  But this has changed over the last few years as private company stock exchanges have emerged.    - Facebook has a value of about $25.5

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 29, 2021

  The LA Times article  Shower?    See our prior post on Outdoorsy for more on the company. These are digital nomads who travel in vehicles that have been converted into roaming residences.    In the digital nomad study we collaborated with MBO Partners on, we found 1.9 Flat-screen TV?

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Small Business Labs

JULY 20, 2020

Last week we had an article on U.S. So head over to their article to learn more.     One reason is companies of all sizes will increase their use of nonemployee labor to improve their business agility and flexibility.  Census data showing a big uptick in the number of Americans who are self-employed.  

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

  Supporters of the company claim this is the beginning of a much more successful era for 3D printing, which they're calling 3D printing 2.0. As the Crunchbase article 3D Printing Investment Going Vertical As Big Exit Looms points out, 3D printing has been around a long time and, so far, has not lived up to its hype. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

McKinsey's  The overlooked essentials of employee well-being focuses on how companies can improve the well-being of their employees. As the McKinsey article points out, a lack of social support is not good. It covers two critical factors - job control and social support - that foster physical and mental well-being.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Crunchbase's How Seed Funding Has Exploded In The Past 10 Years reports that: Fewer than 3,200 companies received seed funding in the period between 2006 and 2010. The article points to the launch of Amazon Web Services in the mid-2000s, which made it cheaper and easier to start a software company, as a driver.  

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 27, 2019

  Two recent articles also point this out and add several new buzzwords to our remote work vocabulary. While many companies are just starting to consider allowing employees to work from anywhere, developed WFA programs can be found at firms such as Akami and SAP. Instead, everyone works remotely. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 21, 2018

According to Crunchbase , an "analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so." The article points out that most of these startups are selling community in addition to housing. . Starcity

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 5, 2021

ballot measure classifying workers as contractors covers the plans by a coalition of rideshare/delivery companies to do a ballot measure in Massachusetts that would classify their workers as independent contractors. " The simple answer is that if rideshare drivers are classified as employees, the companies will have to schedule them.  

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

.    The company currently has over 300 units across 13 cities in its network.  Landing is the first company addressing this.”.   The new funding will be used for expansion and the firm hopes to be in over 30 cities by the end of 2020.  

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 10, 2018

  The article chart below (click to enlarge) shows some (but not all) of the bigger Edtech funding rounds in 2018. The article also references a prior Crunchbase article, China’s Education Startups Continue To Pull In Massive Funding Rounds.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

   Fora is also tapping in to the long-term growth in personal services companies.    Adding travel services is logical monetization path for this group. And, of course, there's a lot of pent-up consumer travel demand due to COVID.  

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Small Business Labs

JULY 22, 2020

Thrasio is a large and fast-growing acquirer of small consumer product companies that are part of Amazon's Fulfillment by Amazon program (FBA).    They recently raised $260 million in a funding round that values the company at $1 billion.     Most platform on a platform companies are relatively small.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We have no idea how a couple of hurricanes in the US could have a material earnings impact on a company like Regus, but we credit them for their creativity.    The common factor across all these articles is the coworking giant WeWork, which was profiled last week in an extensive Wall Street Journal article.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 19, 2021

.   In the Barron's article Poshmark CEO Sees Huge Market for Used Goods. Poshmark CEO Chandra said the company is riding three trends: the acceleration of e-commerce; consumers embracing social selling; and the growing market for second-hand goods. .  " Social selling isn't new. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

.  But there's been much debate around whether or not companies - and particularly the online platform marketplaces like Uber and Lyft - could shift their workers to traditional employment and still provide the same levels of work flexibility.   In the case of one company, about half their drivers quit over the shift.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

JP Morgan isn't the only company planning on this. Most companies also want employees to show up at the office some of the time.     Axios also covers this topic in their article Remote Work Won't Kill Your Office.    They think it improves cultural, social cohesion, teamwork and innovation.  

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Fast Company's Social clubs died out in America. The article starts by pointing out the long decline in the membership of traditional clubs. " The broader point of the article is that the new wave of clubs need to charge high prices because they are ventured backed, have lots of amenities and high costs.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 15, 2017

companies have long moved work overseas to save money. The New York Times article  Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States looks at the outsourcing of software development tasks to lower cost U.S. The New York Times article covers the Midwest-based  Nexient , whose tagline is "100% U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 26, 2018

Bloomberg's Inside Google's Shadow Workforce covers the use by Google of what they call TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors" According to the article about half of Google's workforce is comprised of TVCs.  And it's not just big companies. 

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

  As the article points out, this is already happening. Also echoing this comes from the LA Times article Opinion: California is making the writing life even harder. Key quote: "Facing ever narrower margins, media companies prefer to avoid the time and cost of parsing the law and any risk of running afoul of it.

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