Economics

Infographic: The Value of Women in Startups

March 1, 2013

This interesting infographic called The Value of Women in Startups is from onlinebusinessdegree.com. Lots of interesting information here.  (Via.)

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Pop Quiz: Greatest Challenge in Workforce Planning

November 13, 2012

According to this infographic, summarizing more detailed research, the greatest challenge is finding and hiring the right people. Which I think would have been true last year, five years ago, and 20 years ago too. The greatest uncertainty: the economy. I got this infographic today from the Compliance and Safety Blog: Featured By: complianceandsafety.com

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Why Not Grant Visas To Promote Startups in the US?

August 6, 2012

Vivek Wadhwa’s column on the Washington Post site is titled America’s Irrational Immigration Fear. He goes into the background about visas for entrepreneurs and technology innovators, and some of the problems involved. It’s good background information, based on a July 18 report from the Brookings Institution. Here’s a summary of the findings: Report authors, Neil [...]

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Infographic: Small Business and the US Economy

July 20, 2012

Palo Alto Software’s marketing team prepared this infographic from information provided by 10,000 users of its LivePlan web application for business planning. So that’s not a random list of small business owners, but it is a list of people who have wanting to plan a new business, or grow an existing business, in common. So [...]

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Tipping Point Trumps First Mover Advantage

June 21, 2012

Two interesting milestones: a note last week that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. coupled with the fact that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took. And what interests me is who makes [...]

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Crabgrass Theory of Tech Startups

June 14, 2012

I’m fascinated by Fred Wilson’s recent post he called The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs, on his AVC blog from late last month. This is so much like my own sense of how it was, beginning with the first semiconductor companies appearing in what was then called the Santa Clara Valley in the 1950s. I was in [...]

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Shocking Post-Recession Economic Bar Chart

June 13, 2012

The great recession, it seems, goes on. While I don’t like statistics as morality, and I hate how much this stuff lends itself to inane talking points in politics, this was just striking. I saw it on CNN Monday: Family net worth plummets 40%. The illustration is by CNN, and sources are cited in the small [...]

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Is There a Tech Bubble? We’ll Know If It Pops

May 2, 2012

Earlier today I posted disruption vs. revenue and the tech bubble on the gust.com blog. I’m suggesting in that post that some special-case web-based startups have to choose between disruption or revenue, because they can’t have both. That may or may not be true, but I’ve been guilty of suggesting it is to a couple [...]

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What To do When Business Research Collides

May 3, 2011

I follow two reports on small business employment, one done by Intuit, the king of small business accounting, which also has a payroll service, and the other by SurePayroll, which is a small business online payroll service. But here’s the rub: reporting on small business jobs in April, the Intuit index has good news … [...]

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Quick Dollar View of National Priorities

March 14, 2011

Andrew Sullivan posted this as Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cutson his Daily Dish blog on The Atlantic. He traced it back to this possible origin, which has a lot of detail at the bottom about sources and assumptions. I apologize for politics, not my normal fare on this blog, but it’s such an eloquent [...]

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