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Coworking Labs - Our New Research Blog for our Coworking Project

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When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   We will be reporting on the project and coworking in general on our new CoworkingLabs project blog

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LinkedIn's Deep Dive on VanLifers and Digital Nomads

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For those not familiar with with the VanLife trend , it refers to the growing number of mostly millennials who have traded in their homes and apartments for life on the road in vans.  Between their Instagram posts, YouTube videos, blogging and photography, Jess and Jorge are hustling hard from inside their roughly 80-square-foot van. 

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The Taylor Review: The British Government Looks at the Gig Economy

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Key report quote: government should introduce a new name to refer to the category of people who are eligible for “worker” rights but who are not employees. We recommend that the legislation refer to this group as ‘dependent contractors’. The other finding of note in the report is that the U.K.

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Global Small Business Forum October 23rd in Chicago

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Regular readers know we often refer to their Global Small Business blog and turn to them for information on small businesses going global. .  Sessions include information for traditional exporters as well as how digitization and global ecommerce is creating the ability to easily and effectively enter overseas markets.

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Millennial Myths

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Good article on Monster's blog called Millennial Myths and the Truth About Gen Y Workers. I will refer you to the article for the Gen Y "truths", which I agree with.  It covers 5 of the bigger misconceptions about the Millennial generation (born 1980 to 2000).   The 5 Myths are: Gen Y is lazy.

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Pets as Part of the Family

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Regular reader know we refer to this as pet humanization and that it's one of our favorite trends. It's even tangentially linked to the topic of this blog because pet humanization is leading to a lot of small business opportunities. The key article quote is: Just how deep are our ties with our pets?

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Obamacare's Impact on Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

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Sam Altman, president of the well known tech accelerator Y-Combinato r, has a blog post with a series of quotes from Y-Combinator backed company founders who might not have been able to start their firms without Obamacare. Hoffman's article references a recent U.S.

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