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APRIL 1, 2021

  They recently released their 2021 State of the Amazon Seller Report. This report covers who Amazon's small business sellers are, what and how they’re selling, how they are responding to the pandemic induced increase in ecommerce and their future plans. .    Of the 2.4 in stores, or on their own ecommerce site.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

And according to their research report The State of Contingent Workforce Management 2014-2015 this growth is going to continue.  Key quote from the report: Ardent predicts by the end of 2017, nearly 45% of the world's total workforce will be contingent.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Work From Home Survey 2020 report. The survey was done between April 16th to May 4th and the respondents "were required to be working full time for a company of 100 or more people, to have worked in an office environment prior to COVID-19, and to be currently working from home." 

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

The HBR's The Big Factors That Attract the Best Freelancers  provides an excellent overview of why companies are hiring more freelancers and what organizations need to do to attract top flight contingent talent. A question we often get is why are companies increasing their use of contingent talent.

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MARCH 8, 2021

firms with between $10 million and $500 million in sales (midmarket companies).    One of the most interesting parts of the Barlow article are the export challenges faced by midmarket companies. .   What's so interesting to us is microbusinesses report fewer challenges than midmarket firms do.  

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? The report covers 20 key demographic, social, economic and technology trends. 

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

  Until January, the BLS only reported unincorporated self-employment in their monthly release.    This changed with the development of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) in the 1970's and 1980's and IRS changes in the 1990's that made them much more attractive to soloprenuers.    . 

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses?   Sharespost is also a good source of information on private company valuation. 

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MAY 24, 2021

The global resort company Club Med recently released a report covering the top countries and places for digital nomads.   The report focused on tropical locations, so popular digital nomad places like Berlin and Amsterdam aren't included.  

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JUNE 30, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses?   They recently surveyed  400 local companies in these two states. 

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JUNE 23, 2015

Fast Company Co. "For Uber, it does not mean that its business model is invalid. It just needs a good system to allocate these costs accordingly, apply a surcharge to passengers and remit the taxes. As policymakers, we should begin discussing whether our 20th-century definitions work in a 21st-century economy.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses?   Sharespost is also a good source of information on private company valuation. 

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Reports and Resources Intuit 2020 Research Report Todays Hobbyists are Tomorrows Hobbypreneurs Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force Research Brief - Small Business Credit Outlook The Economic Stimulus Package: Whats in it for Growing Businesses? Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 23, 2021

This topic has come up because  last week a California judge ruled that Proposition 22, a ballot measure passed in last November's elections that allowed rideshare and delivery companies to treat their drivers as independent workers was unconstitutional.    So was the court decision a big victory for gig workers?  

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MAY 15, 2018

The report chart above (click to enlarge) illustrates this and shows that the companies surveyed are spending about the same amount on external service providers and external independent workers. While this is not new news for regular readers, the report has more details and is well worth reading.

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MARCH 14, 2019

  But as companies become more reliant on external talent, they increasingly need to structure their policies, procedures, and engagement practices in order to be successful in attracting, engaging, and retaining highly skilled independent professionals.  A Positive Work Environment. The Opportunity to Learn and Build Skills.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Two companies that connect artisan makers with retailers and customers announced large funding rounds last week. Faire reports having "15,000 stores actively buying on the platform?—?more The company sources the designs and products from independent illustrators, textile designers, painters and other artists. 

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JUNE 29, 2021

" Cabana isn't the only van rental business reporting raising money.     See our prior post on Outdoorsy for more on the company. It also plans to offer four-person vans that can accommodate more families and small group trips."

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

  Take for example the coverage of the recent National League of Cities report  Cities and the Innovation Economy: Perceptions of Local Leaders. It also found that 16% of cities currently partner with sharing economy companies and 79% of those who don't would be open to partnering. cities favor the sharing economy. 

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Colliers International, a global real estate services and investment management company, recently released their 2019 U.S. Flexible Workspace Outlook Report. The growth of flexible workspaces is nicely shown in the report chart below. markets • Key issues facing the sector" This by itself is quite interesting.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

  This report forecasts continuing corporate turbulence and a reduction in the amount of time firms spend on the S&P 500 index.   The reasons companies fall off the S&P 500 list vary. .   The reasons companies fall off the S&P 500 list vary. Each is described in detail in the free report. 

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2018

After posting on corporations looking to increase their agility on Tuesday, we found two new reports on business agility in our mailbox on Wednesday. Gallup pointed us to their report The Real Future of Work: The Agility Issue.   According to this report everyone agrees agility is important. As noted by the survey results.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Gartner's Most Competitive Roles 2019 provides an interesting look at the jobs big companies are hiring for.    According to the report, "49% of all job postings by S&P 100 companies in 2018 were for just 39 roles. " The report chart below (click to enlarge) lists some of the high demand roles. 

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JULY 18, 2017

Both labour and industry groups in the UK are criticizing the report.    The Independent's Matthew Taylor review: Unions slam gig economy report for 'spectacular failure' to deliver on promises  obviously covers the fact that unions don't like the report. delivery service Deliveroo.

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MAY 14, 2018

The large, global health services company Cigna recently released their U.S. is at "epidemic levels" The key findings include: Nearly half  of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent). Loneliness Index , which found loneliness in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

McKinsey's  The overlooked essentials of employee well-being focuses on how companies can improve the well-being of their employees. But it also explains why the self-employed - and especially those that work in coworking spaces - report higher levels of wellness and work satisfaction than traditional employees do.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Because of their remit, they report on a wide range of interesting trends. Business Travel Culture Drives Company Success. Key quote from the report on this trend: Video and digital collaboration tools have transformed the modern workplace. Skift is one of our favorite publications. Bleisure Travel is the New Black.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

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. He sees a huge opportunity, and one the company is only just beginning to tap. " Social selling isn't new.  3%) to 10% in 2020.  

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JUNE 4, 2019

Fast Company's Social clubs died out in America. This is because solopreneurs, remote worker and home-based workers report loneliness and lack of belonging among their biggest work challenges.   It's an extension of a Harvard Divinity School report that looked at declining church membership.

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JULY 9, 2018

The report The Rise of the Expert Economy is a interesting look at what it calls a "little-known, high-growth sector, made up of networks that connect experts with companies that need them."  As shown by the report chart below (click to enlarge), there are about 1.5   This doesn't come cheap.

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JULY 26, 2018

And it's not just big companies.    A November, 2017 SCORE study found that small business owners reported a 37% increase in hiring gig workers over the prior six months. They also reported more than half of surveyed small business owners plan to increase their use of non-employee talent over the next year.

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JULY 6, 2021

   Getting back to McKinsey's trends report, it's well worth reading if you're interested in technology trends. " When we founded Emergent Research many years ago we debated whether or not to call ourselves Convergent Research instead. 

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Patch Media has placed an ad looking for reporters to cover stories about California, so long as the reporters don't actually live in California. 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. Some employment listings.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

  This has obviously changed with a growing number of companies announcing they plan on allowing a much greater degree of remote work long term.  We will report our findings in the fall.   This is because corporations have been hesitant to allow their employees to become nomadic. 

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

While currently a relatively small market, it's attracting companies of all sizes and shapes.  The chart below, from BI Intelligence's recent report THE ON-DEMAND MEAL DELIVERY REPORT  (paid subscription required), shows why food delivery is attracting so much interest. They report that : half of U.S.

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