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The Recent Flurry of Gig Economy Studies

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Want Your Business to Thrive - Cultivate Your External Talent : The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Success Factors teamed up for study, which surveyed independent workers, managers who hire independent works and HR employees.    The goal of the study was to get a 360 view of external labor use by businesses.

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Aspen Institute and Cornell Release Gig Economy Data Hub

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The goal of the Data Hub is to provide accessible and comprehensive information about the scope and nature of independent work and the gig economy. Key quote from their announcement blog post : The Data Hub seeks to consolidate, communicate, and clarify available data sources, including public, private, and academic research.

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Book Review: The Encore Career Handbook

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Simply put, a lot of baby boomers don't have the financial resources to retire.   The Encore Career Handbook , by Marci Alboher, is a great resource for helping with that planning.   The book achieves this goal. .   The book achieves this goal.

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What are DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)? And Why You Should Care.

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    The basics are a group of people with a common goal get together online, pool their resources and collectively attempt to accomplish the goal. The simplest way to describe DAOs - distributed autonomous organizations - is they're online communities owned and controlled by their members.   

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TJ McCue's Excellent 3D Printing Adventure

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According to his trip website , over 8 months TJ will make hundreds of stops with the goal of: exploring the cities, towns and off-the-path byways to uncover a fundamental change in the way things are designed and made, and how this is bringing radical change to business and to society at large. How cool is that!

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Food Trucks as Lean Startups

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In lean terms this is called the "minimum viable product" The goal of the minimum viable product is to verify that people are interested in what you make, before you sink large amounts of time, energy and money on the project.   Lean startup approaches and methods have mostly been applied to software and internet businesses. But

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Data and Analytics Help Macy's Go Local

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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? Nice article, thanks for sharing. Posted by: egg vibrator | October 04, 2010 at 10:55 PM I agree.

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