Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Before you take on a project, consider what boxes it ticks. If you know why you’re taking on a project, you’re most likely to thrive. That can be good practice for a little while, but it can also quickly lead to burnout and a feeling of powerlessness. Do you simply need the money? Do you want to work with the editor?

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 18, 2019

.  These include being unwilling to cut back on an under performing asset or activity, getting too distracted by shiny new initiatives, sticking with numbers or projections that are out of date or likely incorrect. But our favorite was what they call taking an "outside view" of a project or forecast.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

.   The article describes the growing number of people who are, in the words of the article, "quitting prestigious and high-paying jobs to pursue risky passion projects."

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 19, 2019

Creative services, healthcare and sciences and project management have been fast growing fields for independent workers. Some workers in project management and creative services likely would have self-described as IT workers a decade ago. .  But a few patterns are clear. Automation is likely one of the reasons for this.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 13, 2020

   Just 6 years ago most demographers projected that the U.S. percent of the projected 73.9 percent of the projected 73.9 .  We've long covered the changing demographic make-up of the United States.    These changes are, if anything, accelerating.   million children under age 18).

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 8, 2021

   As McKinsey's report chart below shows (click to enlarge), global coal demand peaked in 2014 and they are projecting oil demand to peak in 2029, and natural gas demand peaking in 2037. McKinsey's Global Energy Perspective 2021 suggests the global demand for fossil fuels will peak in 2027 and steadily fall afterwards.  

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Small Business Labs

MAY 7, 2018

But demographic trends are key drivers of change and also one of the few things we can project into the future with decent accuracy. Pew Research's  7 demographic trends shaping the U.S. and the world in 2018 looks at the demographic trends Pew considers to be the most important. 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Firms are increasingly looking to outside contractors to provide completed projects. These projects often require a team of people with specialized skills to complete a variety of tasks. This is leading to more independent workers to create either formal or ad hoc teams that can bid on larger and more complex projects.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 26, 2018

Census , by "2020 less than half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 Census on what this means: As the population ages, the ratio of older adults to working-age adults, also known as the old-age dependency ratio, is projected to rise.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 25, 2021

  We've been doing a deep dive research project on the creator economy, and we'll have on this topic in the near future.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

  They're projecting it will take 18 months after the pandemic for the sector to recover fully. "It’s a double whammy." " According to Johns Hopkins, the nonprofit sector's recovery will likely be slow.  Nonprofits are mostly small businesses, which is why we cover them. 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

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.  .   Because of this, we've been exposed to some fascinating work on these topics.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

  Given the large current size of social commerce, that's a pretty stunning projection.   .  Statistically speaking, that's roughly a 50% compounded annual growth rate over the next 5-6 years.     China is the main growth driver, but they think both the U.S.   

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 9, 2019

.    The reasons those with full-time jobs say they are interested in gig work are increased schedule flexibility, the ability to work where they want and the ability to take on multiple, different projects.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 5, 2019

" The boutique agencies Upwork refers to are small service firms, most of which utilize freelancers as part of their project teams.  These businesses will operate virtually, with employees (many contractors) working in different locations, and staffing levels increasingly flexible - rising and falling to meet project needs.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 5, 2021

With the advent of new work platforms that enable real-time teaming between independents, we’re predicting a rise in the virtual, just-in-time organization – where talented individuals come together to deliver work and then disband until the next project arrangement.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

.  The program, called Blitz, provides companies seeking short-term contractors for specific projects access to graduates of Udacity education programs.   Much like a project consulting firm, Udacity bids on the project, puts together projects teams and provides project management services.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The Hamilton Project essay The Nature of Work after the COVID Crisis: Too Few Low-Wage Jobs is authored by MIT economists David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds.    The essay covers four shifts being accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on labor markets.    The four are: 1.     4. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

.  Like PWC's Talent Exchange and Deloitte's Open Talent Community , the goal of GigNow is to help EY find and engage skilled independent workers - both for EY's internal use and for use on client projects. These are: Access to diverse and interesting gigs.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 10, 2019

  The article suggests using the following two-factor grid to help decide which clients to pursue and projects to take. There's a good cultural and values fit between you and the client.   

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Forbes article What The 'Gig' Economy Means For Graduates And Their Employers  covers an ongoing project called It's a Project-Based World from the learning design firm Getting Smarter.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 6, 2017

The study chart below shows how much faster the sharing economy is projected to grow relative to traditional rental industry segments.    Online staffing, which Mastercard is projecting to grow at 37% compound annual rate, caught our attention for two reasons. That's a lot of projected growth.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2017

  We are projecting continued rapid growth over the next 5 years, although slower than the industry's recent dizzying pace. We’re projecting the global number of members to grow even faster than the number of spaces.  We recently released our new coworking forecast for 2018-2022.  million in 2017 to 5.1

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

  Firms are leasing shared space for everything from surge space to touchdown space for traveling executives to incubators for new products and project teams, among others. Flexible workspace providers are shifting their focus to target larger corporations and enterprise clients.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 30, 2018

20 percent of all American workers are contract workers hired to work on a specific project or for a fixed period of time. They asked: Thinking about your work arrangement, are you a contract worker, that is, someone who has been hired to work on a specific project or for a fixed period of time?

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 6, 2020

  Work is becoming more team and project-oriented, and the barriers separating traditional and independent work continue to erode. We certainly agree. And we see this as one of the drivers of the growth of independent work (freelancing, independent consulting, etc.). 

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 28, 2019

  Because of their (intentionally) skewed sample, we can't precisely project how many people these percentages equate to. As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), most gig work is done to generate supplemental income.  But for the U.S. we'd estimate 14% is somewhere around 20-25 million Americans.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 18, 2019

pet economy is projected to exceed $75 billion this year, up from $72.5 Key quote: The surge in spending on pets – and explosion of new products, services and unique “experiences” to help quadrupeds and their owners bond more closely – is at an apex, tracking to break U.S. records this year. According to the article, "the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 9, 2018

coworking forecast projects continued growth for the U.S. coworking industry over the next 5 years.    Our forecast average annual growth rate for U.S. spaces over the forecast period (2017 to 2022) is, by coworking's standards, a relatively modest 9%.  over this time frame.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Johns Hopkins Non-Profit Economic Data Project recently released its 2019 Non-Profit Employment Report.    There are two key findings.    The first is the U.S non-profit sector is big, employing 12.3 million paid workers.   manufacturing sector.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 23, 2017

Census is projecting that the  "two or more races" population will grow the fastest of any demographic cohort over the next 40 years.  By 2060 the minority population is projected to rise to 56 percent of the total, compared with 38 percent in 2014. .  These stats comes from Pew Research's In U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 24, 2015

Coworking giant WeWork is launching WeLive, a project combining their coworking spaces with dorm-style micro apartments. The 12-story building will have 252 units, many of them 360 square feet or less, and several shared two-story “neighborhoods” with expansive common areas.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 4, 2016

There's the variety, projects big and small, high paying, low paying, interesting, mundane, changing faces, fresh ideas, new clients. all this can be thrilling and it's deeply satisfying to see a project through to the end and move to the next. Working independently gives flexibility with hours, and in some respects location.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 1, 2018

Intuit partnered with Emergent Research (that's us) on this study, which is part of a deeper dive research project on how automation technologies are impacting small businesses. We'll have more from this study in the near future.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 27, 2018

  We've long studied these coworking spaces for making things and our 2009 study on the maker movement is one of our favorite research projects.  .  While this vision may or may not come to pass, what is happening is the number of global  fab labs and makerspaces is rapidly growing. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Pew internet's Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life project asked hundreds of technology experts how people's lives might be impacted by the evolution of the internet over the next 50 years.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The Johns Hopkins Non-Profit Economic Data Project recently released new data on the the non-profit sector of the economy. The data is for 2016 (the most recent available) and was developed in conjunction with the U.S. BLS ( click here to go the BLS's non-profit data landing page ). 

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