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Future of Small Business

by Tim Berry on February 22, 2008

in Business Research, Entrepreneurship

It’s a wealth of ideas, a thorough analysis, really good brainstorming, and a valuable resource. Intuit has published part three of Small Biz Labs’ excellent series on the future of small business, titled “The Emerging Artisan Economy. ” The report…

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Would You Have Guessed This?

by Tim Berry on February 11, 2008

in Business Research, Entrepreneurship

What if you conducted research that ended up showing you exactly what you and everybody else would have guessed? Was it worth doing? Here’s a paragraph in today’s National Dialog on Entrepreneurship newsletter: A second survey assesses the factors driving…

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I enjoy reading other people’s predictions. They offer food for thought sometimes, new ideas, occasionally a good laugh, and sometimes a source you can quote for those occasions when somebody will feel good asking “who says so” when you actually…

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Thanks to Steve King for this post this morning. Although I’m not working today, I’m still trying to keep up and pass the good stuff on, and this is good stuff: I’ve been crunching through the SBA’s annual Small Business…

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What’s This Information Worth to You?

by Tim Berry on September 11, 2007

in Business Research

In running a business, speaking to groups, teaching a university class, I’ve learned that often an exact-sounding guess in the right range is more useful than “I’ll check on that and get back to you” or “I’m not sure exactly,…

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Do You Believe This Data?

by Tim Berry on September 11, 2007

in Business Research

Who takes phone calls from survey takers? Do you take calls from survey takers? Do you know anybody who does? Consider the following, straight from PR Newswire: MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Fourteen percent of chief information officers…

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I participated in Del Jones’ survey on the position in the family for his article in USA Today. First-born Kids Become CEO Material. Interesting question and interesting research, I suppose, an example of the problems of correlation and causation. It’s…

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Nobody Asked Trees

by Tim Berry on June 29, 2007

in Business Research

This looks like a good example of why I say mistrust research. This morning Small Biz Labs posted an intriguing piece showing that consumers prefer regular mail to email for receiving product information and promotions; by a large margin. That…

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