Small Business Labs

JANUARY 27, 2020

  Because of this, they are working on various ways to clean up AB5 and reduce its negative impacts on legitimate independent workers.    For more on how indie musicians view AB5, see Ari's Take's blog post I MET WITH SENATE MAJORITY LEADER OF CA ABOUT AB5. HERE'S HOW IT WENT. 

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APRIL 27, 2015

  According to an interview with Godin on the Gaping Void blog , here's reason he's done this course: This is the golden age for freelancers. This is a focused check up from the neck up, a chance to understand how to work your way up as a freelancer, by making hard choices and digging deep into the choices that matter. 

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MARCH 1, 2012

 Key quote from their blog post on the report : The latest Census reports that Americans 18-34 make up 23 percent of the U.S. population, yet they represent an outsized portion of consumers watching online video (27%), visiting social networking/blog sites (27%), owning tablets (33%) and using a smartphone (39%). 

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

  According to their blog post Talent in the Biotech Gig Economy , only 25 of the roughly 150 people working at Nimbus are traditional employees.  In addition to hiring gig workers, Nimbus uses contract lab space, partnerships, cloud based technology and outsourcing to keep their fixed costs down and business flexibility up. 

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JUNE 9, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Seed Deals Account for 26% of Early-stage Web Investments from Giga Om covers the frothy state of angle investments in web start-ups and the growing clout of "super angels." 

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MARCH 21, 2013

Excellent article on Food Truck Economics over at the Priceonomics blog. Their other blog content is also at best tangentially related to their business.  Priceonomics is a price guide on, well, almost everything. It's a bit unclear to me why they have an in-depth article on food trucks.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Penta is the name of a Barron's blog and quarterly publication that has the tagline: "Trusted Advice For Families With Assets of $5 Million or More" It has all sorts of fun and useful articles such as Superyacht Sales Rebound. To be fair, most of these people didn't inherit their money or come from rich backgrounds.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 1, 2011

I'm a bit behind on my reading (we've been swamped this quarter) and just got caught up on the  Enterprise Council on Small Business (ECSB) blog. The blog post I found most interesting shows that Facebook is the preferred social media network small businesses want their suppliers to use to communicate with them. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Consumer research giant Nielsen's Nothing Is Too Good for Fido: Pets That Have it All nicely sums up a recent set of research showing the extent to which pets have become family members. It's even tangentially linked to the topic of this blog because pet humanization is leading to a lot of small business opportunities.

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MAY 3, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Accounting a Barbell Industry | Main | Why Arent Newspapers Doing Social Shopping?   So far, 647 people have signed up for the deal.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 18, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   Tim has multiple blogs, a consulting practice and a software company.    Key quote: "For me it was writing, blogging, speaking, etc. .    His answer was he was retired.

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MAY 19, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « DMAs Spring Magazine Focused on Going Global | Main | Is Corporate Social Media Sales Media?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Shapeways Gets VC Funding, Moves to the U.S.   It is also called farmshoring and it is a trend that is picking up steam. 

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APRIL 11, 2013

The number of people on disability is up substantially over the last past decade. The number of people on food stamps and other government support programs is up. We now have more data than last year and the answer is people are leaving the workforce for a variety of reasons, including: Younger Americans are staying in school longer.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 24, 2015

The chart below, which shows a decline in employer-provided and on-the-job training in recent decades, has been making the rounds in the economic blogs. It comes from the 2015 Economic Report of the President  (page 147), which is prepared annually by the President's Council of Economic Advisers for Congress.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 7, 2016

They have an interesting blog post on one of their top "experts" and why he does on-demand customer service work.  On a typical day, Mark wakes up to have a cup of coffee and answers questions to customers who replied to him while sleeping.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2015

This is up from about 30,000 in 2009. They have a great tagline - creating an online workplace for the world - and I also like their phrase "talent with boundaries"   If your small business is interested in becoming an exporter a great resource is The Global Small Business blog.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 27, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. " VCs, of course, used to invest in raw start-ups.  When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.   Kudos to Wilson for telling it like it is.

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MAY 10, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

.  Their CEO, Rand Fishkin, covers the ups and downs of the process is an outstanding blog post:  Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised.   The press (and blogs like this one) tend to focus on success and don't mention the failures.  The post is excellent on a number of levels. 

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MAY 14, 2014

  But if you're reading this blog, you'll likely find much of interest on the Sleeter site so I recommend you go ahead and register. Knowledge professionals who can move up the value chain and provide these services will thrive. You need to be registered on the Sleeter site to get the full report.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 2, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   But following up on yesterday's post on IBM's global CEO survey , I wanted to highlight one of their charts.    Technology allows companies to better manage complexity.

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MAY 28, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it.

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MAY 4, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « More on Social Shopping - Groupon | Main | More Evidence Facebook is Taking Over the Web » May 04, 2010 Why Arent Newspapers Doing Social Shopping?

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 16, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « What is The Singularity?   They also have a blog and a daily research round-up. The chart below is taken from their research on U.S.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   It's going to be a long road back unless small business employment picks up. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.

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JULY 7, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « The Trend Towards U.S. .    This is little changed from 2008, but up from 14.5%   Hispanics make up just over 50.5%

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 5, 2011

      There's way too much to summarize in a blog post, but one thing that really jumped out at me is the data on U.S. We've also reached "minority-majority" status where minorities make up more the 50% of the population in 4 states (California, Hawaii, New Mexico and Texas). 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Office Nomads, a coworking facility in Seattle, discusses the same topic in their blog post Negotiating Your Coworking Membership With Your Boss.  A major benefit of telecommuting from home, backed up by numerous examples, is increased productivity. So let's see here.  

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business | Main | Are VCs Colluding? .  Not all start-ups are this fortunate.

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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 21, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   Industry analysts are upping their app revenue forecasts almost monthly.  A When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   But the concepts - shared space, targeted at independent workers and small businesses, an emphasis on community and networking - are being picked up in a variety of fields and shared facilities. . 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   But the concepts - shared space, targeted at independent workers and small businesses, an emphasis on community and networking - are being picked up in a variety of fields and shared facilities. . 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Outsourcing to Rural Areas of the U.S. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 11, 2010

Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. TV sets , up from 2.86 Hi, You obviously put a lot of work into that post and it’s very interesting to see the thought process that you went through to come up with those conclusion. home has 2.93

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

 The Marginal Revolution blog , for example, argues against some of the article but states "We are in basic agreement about the laws of future employment."  We think Gene Zanio, CEO of MBO Partners , is correct when he suggests up to half of all U.S. There appears to be broad agreement with these 3 laws.

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