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What’s Going On At SoftBank? New Executive Steps Down After Just Five Months

Allwork

In the press release announcing his departure, Combes took credit for helping WeWork finally go public via merging with a special purpose acquisition company. . “I Claure served as CEO of Sprint from 2014 and 2018, when Combes took over until Sprint merged with T-Mobile. .

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The Rise of Independent Worker Teams: Fiverr's Studios and Upwork's Agency Experience

Small Business Labs

The chart below (click to enlarge) is from a 2014 study on the impact of cloud computing we conducted in partnership with Intuit.  In 2014 we suggested that cloud computing is a transformational technology that was in stage 2 and helping to create new forms and types of businesses. 

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The On-Demand Economy Driving Growth of Nonemployer Businesses

Small Business Labs

Census  released their 2015 data on non-employer businesses last week.  million from 2014 to 2015. Since Census press release this year focused on the  fast year over year growth of nonemployers in transit and ground transportation. percent from 362,445 in 2014 to 577,809 in 2015, according to U.S.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). million workers and generating revenue of $1.9 Her research team, based in the Washington, D.C.

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Small and Independent Brewers Continue to Gain Share

Small Business Labs

Key quote from their press release: In 2015, craft brewers produced 24.5 Key quote from a 2014 Deloitte study on this topic : a new economic landscape is beginning to emerge in which a relatively few large, concentrated players will provide infrastructure, platforms, and services that support many fragmented, niche players.

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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

Office Dynamics

Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.

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Despite What the Government Statistics Say, Moonlighting is on the Rise

Small Business Labs

UpWork and the Freelancers Union recently released their 2016 Freelancing in America study. According the press release the key findings are: Freelancing is growing -- The freelance workforce grew from 53 million in 2014 to 55 million in 2016 and currently represents 35% of the U.S. Moonlighters (25%/13.5

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