Nonemployers take a beating again in ‘09

It’s gotten to be that time of year again.
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released new nonemployer numbers and we’re seeing a continuation of a trend that started last year: for the past two years now, the number of nonemployers has been declining.
That’s a big deal, at least in part because that had never happened before [...]

Groovin’ on (some of) the data

The Kauffman Foundation has been jumping up and down and yelling (in dignified research professional fashion, of course) about their finding that it’s not merely small firms that create jobs, it’s young firms.
As a fan of research and fact-based public policy, it’s gratifying to see all that tap dancing has started to yield results, according [...]

[Friday Musical Interlude] Online shoppers are social animals

Happy Friday, fellow travelers.
Some of you may already know about my monthly research post over at Small Business Trends but, if you don’t, go check it out.
For my May post, I cover

a somewhat alarming look at (yet another) small business financing data, which found a broad-based lack of collateral that gets in the [...]

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