Small Business Labs

AUGUST 18, 2015

 Key quote from the report: 200 funds invested in five or more deals in 2014, 4% fewer than in 2013 and 83% fewer than in 2001. As the study chart below shows, there's been a steady decline in the number of VC firms since the Internet bubble of the late 1990's.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Skipping to 2001, the conference centered on Don’t Gamble on Leading Your Team: Help Your Organization Maintain a Competitive Edge in the New Economy and was hosted in Las Vegas, NV. Joan noted that by 2013, all of these have grown in importance in the administrative world. And that brought us up to the present, 2013.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

.  Using contingent labor has gotten easier and more effective due to the growth of online talent exchanges such as Elance and oDesk, improvements in collaborative technologies for managing non-employees and growing numbers independent workers available for hire. We think this is a big miss and is leading to the under counting of U.S.

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