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Small Business Labs - Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business
Small Business Labs
Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business

  • Good News - The Unemployment Rate Went Up in August
    It's hard to be positive about the overall jobs picture. But August's employment report had some good news, including private sector employment increasing by a better than expected 67,000. This is on top of the upwardly revised increase of 107,000...

  • Small Business Employment, Confidence Stalled
    The Intuit Small Business Employment Index for August showed a slowing rate of small business job growth. The good news is the index was positive, with small businesses posting a gain of 26,000 jobs in August. Also good news is...

  • Linking Coworking and Innovation
    "Accelerated serendipity" is a term you hear often in the coworking community. It is a belief that coworking increases the generation of business ideas and productivity. The concept is when smart people from diverse backgrounds come together in a coworking...

  • 20 TED Talks for Small Business
    TED is a small non-profit focused on fostering ideas and new information. The name comes from technology, entertainment and design and early on they brought together leaders and thinkers from those fields to discuss a wide a cross disciplinary issues....

  • Despite Recession, Private Tutoring Booms
    One of the trends I find really interesting is the continued growth of small personal services companies. These are firms that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained consumers. Basically, consumers outsource tasks they don't enjoy, aren't capable of...

  • Local Online Advertising to Increase 18% in 2011
    Borrell Associatesis forecasting a solid increase of 14% in online advertising in 2011. This results in the overall market for onlilne advertising reaching $35.7 billion. This is much faster than their 2011 overall advertising growth forecast of 5%. This forecast...

  • What are Social Magazines and Flipboard?
    Flipboard is the best known of the many new entrants in a space being described as social magazines. These are applications that allow users to organize, customize and personalize online news and social network feeds. Flipboard got a ton of...

  • The Growth of Private Company Stock Exchanges
    Investing in venture-backed private companies used to be by invitation only. You had to be a founder, employee, a "friends or family" investor, or a venture capital or private equity firm to buy stock in high growth private companies. But...

  • Developing Countries: The Engine of Global Economic Growth
    Good article from Nielsen Wire article on going global. The article focuses on the growth of the mobile Internet, but also covers general economic growth. The chart below wasbuilt by Nielsen using regional economic forecasts from the International Monetary Fund...

  • Job Creation Confusion
    With unemployment high and job creation weak, it would be nice to know what kinds of businesses create new jobs. Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion around this issue. Probably the most prevalent view is that Gazelles, a small number...

  • China Passes Japan - Now 2nd Largest Economy
    China's economy out produced Japan's and became the world's 2nd largest in Q2. China's Q2 GDP was $1.33 trillion versus Japan's $1.28 trillion. Just 5 years ago China's GDP was half of Japan's. China passing Japan has been widely anticipated...

  • CRM Magazine's Small Business Suite CRM Winners
    CRM Magazine's annual Market Awards issue is available online. The awards are given to customer relationship management (CRM) industry leaders and includes both people and companies. It is one of my favorite issues of CRM because in one magazine a...