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AUGUST 31, 2020

  Tech Crunch's Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite reports on this trend.    But the TechCrunch article mentions several other examples, with our favorite being Pivot Bio. .    But the TechCrunch article mentions several other examples, with our favorite being Pivot Bio.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Brewers Association recently released their small and craft brewing economic impact report for 2018.  For example, the employment multiplier for auto factory workers is about 7. We've long used craft brewing as  an example of the rise of niche businesses. Billion to the U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2020

The impact on cities is a good example of the pandemic's 2nd order effects.     Examples include advertising agencies and marketing firms, professional services providers and cities, which rely in part on sales tax and consumer use fees for much of their budgets. .  So the budget cuts have already started.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Flexible Workspace Outlook Report. According to the report's introduction, its purpose is "to help office occupiers and investors alike to better understand: • The rationale behind using flexible workspace • Examples of leasing models • Types of experience models • The volume and characteristics of flexible workspace in leading U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The 2019 edition of one of our favorite trend reports - JWT Intelligence's annual forecast of 100 trends to watch in the coming year - is out.  For example there are several trends about the long tracked shift to experiences. trend 44) is an example: “Carb” was a dirty term in the health and wellness world for a long time.

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APRIL 5, 2018

  See the report for the complete list. We think the key quote from the report is: “You can create your restaurant on wheels for $50,000 to $60,000. Our key finding at the time was that the growth of food trucks was an excellent example of the broader of growth of niche, artisan businesses. Boston, BTW, came in last.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

The Johns Hopkins Non-Profit Economic Data Project recently released its 2019 Non-Profit Employment Report.    As the report chart below shows, from 2007 to 2016 (the most recently available data) employment in the non-profit sector grew nearly four times faster than the for-profit sector.    The first is the U.S

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MARCH 6, 2018

Examples include The Atlantic's  Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America , Bloomberg's  Craft Brewing as a Model for Helping the Middle Class , and the Economist's  Crafting a Life. . We've long used craft brewing as an example of the rise of niche businesses.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Faire reports having "15,000 stores actively buying on the platform?—?more   The trends we reported on in 2008 as driving the growth of the new artisan economy still hold true today: 1.    Both Minted and Faire are excellent examples of all three trends.     2. . 

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title. Key quote from the report on the size of the "human cloud": "SIA estimates that total human cloud spending reached between $47 and $51 billion globally in 2016.   The report is excellent and well worth reading. Upwork and Fiverr are examples.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

On-demand food delivery is a good example.   A few examples of recent activity in this space include: Facebook is offering food delivery from within its app. The demand for food delivery is also clearly illustrated in a recent report from the analyst firm Mintel. They report that : half of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

"  Key article quote on the technologies: One day soon an emerging technology highlighted in this report will allow you to virtually teleport to a distant site and actually feel the handshakes and hugs of fellow cyber travelers.   For example, it's not hard to predict that AI will improve and have a big future impact.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Key quote: "There are already examples of a California backlash. 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. There are lots of examples of legislation that attempt to stop or turn back change. They rarely work. 

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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.   So naturally, Fast Company's article's headline on the report is 33% Of U.S.   As the report chart below shows, over 40% of U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2019

This is because solopreneurs, remote worker and home-based workers report loneliness and lack of belonging among their biggest work challenges. A great example is the How We Gather project, which is a collaboration between Harvard Divinity School, the Fetzer Institute and the On Being project. 

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JUNE 27, 2018

 Since 2003, for example, the number of nonemployer businesses has increased by about 5.7   But one of the fastest growing segments of nonemployers are those reporting $100k or more in gross receipts. Receipts increased 1.5 percent from $1.15 trillion in 2015 to $1.17 trillion in 2016. million in 2010 to about 2.8

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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."  GLG, for example, has 1500 employees across 22 offices and has revenues in excess of $500 million.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

For example, in 2019,  57.1 We will report our findings in the fall. .  Instead, they've mostly treated digital nomadism as a spectator sport, following the exploits of real digital nomads via Facebook, Instagram, blogs, and other forms of social media. million Americans said they would (16.1 These numbers dwarf the 7.3

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MARCH 3, 2020

  The study covers a lot of ground (the study report is 120 pages long) and identifies 12 key trends that Ipsos believes will dominate the world in the 2020s.     For example, 55% of Americans agreed that unequal wealth distribution is bad for society.  This A world divided by its values.

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MARCH 5, 2019

We first reported on the old Kauffman Index back in 2007 and have followed it every since. There have been a number of reports on the decline of entrepreneurship in the U.S. See this Brookings Study or the Washington Post's The decline of American entrepreneurship — in five charts  for examples.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

They recently released a report with their 2019 Trends to Watch. The report is targeted at government policy makers and lists the issues Brookings experts "expect will shape the world this year and the solutions to address them." The trend is listed first in the Biggest Policy Trends in 2019 section of the report.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The Federal Reserve itself, in their 2017 Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households,  reported that 31% of Americans do some form of gig work and that gig work income was important to many. These finding are not surprising. This study was also based on SHED data.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

   For example, Accenture, PWC, Deloitte, and IBM are all on the list of the world's 10 biggest marketing agencies (they're 6th through 9th).     See the report for more fun ad-related facts and data.    See the report for more fun ad-related facts and data.    .  

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JUNE 8, 2018

  Specifically, the report shows that the share of U.S. workforce was slightly smaller than they reported the last time the survey was done, which was 13 years ago. For example, a recent Federal Reserve study found 31% of adult Americans engage in alternative (independent) work. gig/contract workers in the U.S.

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JULY 24, 2018

For example, Savills Studley’s Q2 2018 Manhattan Office Report says: “Like other new innovations the ultimate market share of shared office space is not known, but this growth path seems unsustainable. The chart below comparing the two cities comes from Cushman & Wakefield’s report Coworking 2018 – The Flexible Office Evolves.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

" The Chamber article illustrates this by pointing out that "the financial services sector, for example, has already recovered 94% of its pre-pandemic employment. Instead, what we’re looking at is a recovery that will be vigorous for some sectors while others remain in freefall." " Another factor is remote work.

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MAY 17, 2017

A good example is law.  Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." Doctor on Demand , for example, provides video medical consultation service.    Nomad Health  is another example.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The financial analyst firm Harding Loevner's report  CRAFT BEER IS GOING FLAT. As the Harding Loevner report says, "there are natural limits to how much of the market will pay $17.49 Our interest in the craft brewing industry is due to the fact that it's such a good example of a barbell industrial structure. 

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APRIL 4, 2019

The small and independent Brewers Association released their 2018 Craft Beer Growth Report.   We first started following the craft beer industry in 2006 because we felt the industry was a good example of the growth small, niche markets.    It's also a good example of a barbell industry structure.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Data from the 2016 MBO Partners State of Independence study , for example, showed that about 2 million independent workers sold services or goods to customers outside of the U.S. The report focuses on 4 steps small businesses can take to become successful exporters. See the report for more details.  over the prior year.

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APRIL 11, 2019

And as the report chart below shows (click to enlarge), 32% of all Americans aged 12 and older listened to a podcast in the last month.   Podcasting is interesting to us here at Small Business Labs because it's yet another example of small businesses and even individuals successfully competing with large corporations. 

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JULY 25, 2017

Key quote from the report: Driven by a surge in on-demand labor platforms and online work management solutions, traditional hierarchies are being replaced with open talent marketplaces, which four-fifths (80 percent) of health executives surveyed believe will drive profound shifts in their economics.

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MARCH 9, 2017

  Uber, Lyft and ridesharing services are often cited as examples. But Amazon is in many ways a better example. New Report: How the On-Demand Economy Can Reshape Senior Living. There are many more, but we figure these are enough examples to get the point across.  What The On Demand Economy Means for Lawyers.

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APRIL 2, 2018

But as NPR's  Why The Number Of Independent Bookstores Increased During The 'Retail Apocalypse'  reports, despite Amazon and other challenges independent bookstores are having a bit of a renaissance.  This, of course, was long before Amazon.   From 2009 to 2017 the number of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Oxford paper, for example, reports that a graphic designer in the Philippines earns an average of $8.47 As we pointed out in the 2008 Intuit report  The New Artisan Economy,  a combination of new technologies and business models mean returns to scale are no longer the key to success in many industries.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

." Quibi, which is short for “quick bites” is going to offer short-form videos of 4 to 10 minutes on everything from movies and TV shows in the form of short chapters to daily news and sports reports.  Whether Quibi is successful or not, it's an excellent example of the continuing impact this shift is having.

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JUNE 25, 2015

labor force  reports that in Q1 of 2015 Millennials surpassed Generation X to become the largest share of the American workforce. The report chart below shows the generational shifts in the U.S.   An interesting sidelight to the report is Pew's definitions of age cohorts. workforce over the past two decades.

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