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Young Farmers: Educated, Female and Pursuing Sustainable Farming

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They are mostly male, grew up in a farm family, tend to be high school educated and are much less likely to be running a sustainable or organic farm. The tech startup Farmers Business Network just announced they raised an addition $110 million.  These stats are dramatically different from the demographics of older farmers.

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Time Spent on Social Networks Exploding; Email and IM Fading

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc.   From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively. .  Where are we finding the time? 

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Skillshare: On-Demand Learning for Freelancers (and others)

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interesting conversation with Skillshare's CEO Matt Cooper on the Trending in Education podcast.    Skillshare is an online education platform with over 5 million users and over 20,000 classes taught by a network of 6,000 teachers across dozens of fields. 

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JWT Intelligence's Top 100 Trends for 2019

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As self-employment continues to explode, a wave of freelancer-first networks and platforms is emerging, offering help and advice to self-employed workers. It’s about what I, as a guest, am getting out of this from an educational point of view and an emotive point of view.”. But most are consumer oriented trends.

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Fab Labs, Maker Spaces and the 3rd Digital Revolution

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"  Gershenfeld is also a founder of the Fab Foundation , which supports a global network of over 1000 Fab Labs. These are makerspaces focused on educating members on digital fabrication. The center studies "how to turn data into things, and things into data." 

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Is Small Business Ownership the Great Equalizer?

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  We also looked at how education correlated with small business success.    The analysis was based on data from the Small Business Success Index  (SBSI) produced by the University of Maryland and Network Solutions.    The data is collected from firms with 2-99 employees.   

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Coworking in India

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Just as elsewhere in the world members are looking for a supportive community, networking and educational opportunities, an office infrastructure (especially excellent Internet service) and to be around like minded people. 

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