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Student Loan Hero founder abandoned first startup idea, sold second – INSIDER
Got funding from Startup Chile to start one business, but convinced them to let the team pivot to a business more relevant to them personally – they were just graduating students with loan debt.
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3 Trends that Prevent Entrepreneurs from Accessing Capital | Kauffman.org
Startup Financing Trends by Race: How Access to Capital Impacts Profitability – report. Shows how entrepreneurs in 2017 funded their businesses, and gave racial breakdowns.
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Hive Network Offers Startups A Clear Path To Developing Their MVP – EQ
STL based company helping startups create MVPs with flexible pricing.
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The Gig Economy: Research and Policy Implications of Regional, Economic, and Demographic Trends – AAF
Report o statistical analysis of gig economy workers.3 levels of inclusion. Looks at major demographic variables to assess involvement in and impacts of the gig economy. Gives a detailed look at the ride-sharing industry (uber and lyft) and room-sharing (Airbnb and VRBO).
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Grown-Ups Fight for Children’s Right to Sell Lukewarm Lemonade – WSJ
After little lemonade stand vendors are shut down, a movement springs up to protect them. Country Time’s ‘Legal-Ade’
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Where are all the Contingent Workers
BLS released 2017 Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS). The results showed a slight decline in the percent of workers whose sole or main job was an alternative work arrangement from 10.7 in 2005 to 10.1 in 2017. How do we reconcile these findings with the CWS results? Where are all the contingent workers? We offer a few possibilities.
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The Ups and Downs of Small Business Employment: Big Data on Payroll Growth and Volatility | JPMorgan Chase Institute
In particular, publicly available aggregate data provide an incomplete view of the ways in which employment in the sector shapes the financial well-being of small business owners and their employees. Downloaded the PDF report
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The Online Platform Economy: What is the growth trajectory?
More people on online labor platforms than capital (Airbnb, ebay) platforms.
From a universe of 6 million anonymized core Chase customers, we assembled a dataset of over 260,000 individuals who earned income from at least one of 30 distinct platforms between October 2012 and September 2015—the largest sample of platform earners to date. Over this three-year period, monthly participation in the Online Platform Economy grew 10-fold, from 0.1% to 1.0% of adults in our sample. In the same period the cumulative participation grew from 0.1% of adults to 4.2%, a 47-fold growth. We found that this growth also varied between labor platforms, where individuals perform discrete tasks or assignments; and capital platforms, where individuals sell goods or rent assets peer-to-peer.
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Small Business Resources | JPMorgan Chase Institute
A truly outstanding hot linked list of data sources on small business. The list had 52 sources as of July 2018.
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Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy | JPMorgan Chase Institute
We define the Online Platform Economy as economic activities involving an online intermediary that provides a platform by which independent workers or sellers can sell a discrete service or good to customers. Labor platforms, such as Uber or TaskRabbit, connect customers with freelance or contingent workers who perform discrete projects or assignments. Capital platforms, such as eBay or Airbnb, connect customers with individuals who rent assets or sell goods peer-to-peer.
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