I’d seen this a few weeks ago and intended to post it here then, but lost track of it. So when it appeared in my email again last Friday, I got it. This is what Business Insider calls THE SCARIEST JOBS CHART EVER. It comes as one of their Chart of the Day charts. This [...]
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I don’t get it. I believe it, but I still don’t get it. John Tozzi posted “Startup Activity at Record Low” today on his New Entrepreneur blog on BusinessWeek, quoting outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Here’s his summary: Challenger says just 3.7 percent of job seekers leaving its outplacement program are going into business [...]
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There’s a good piece on WSJ.com today on Small Business Economic Indicators that may be setting the tone for the new year. Author Diana Ransom looks at how these larger indicators affect startups and small business. She says: In the absence of your own economist or strategic planning office, what indicators should you keep an [...]
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Steve King of Small Business Labs has a nice post Wednesday on necessity entrepreneurs. Citing UC Santa Cruz professor Robert Fairlie, Steve says: Fairlie is the lead author behind the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity and a leading entrepreneurship researcher. His work shows that self-employment increases during times of economic stress and flattens out during good [...]
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I guess this isn’t really news, because it’s pretty much what everybody expected. But still: The ADP National Employment report came out again today. The part that interests me most, the small business portion, shows yet another 284,000 jobs lost last month in the small-business portion of the economy–businesses with fewer than 50 employees. That’s [...]
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The New York Times had an article last week about how laid-off workers are taking matters into their own hands. The article talks about when, in a recession, do people start thinking about starting a company vs. just sending out resumes and trying to get a job: Economists say that when the economy takes a [...]
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Honestly, I wasn’t paying much attention to these ADP reports until the downturn really went sour last September. I posted on them a couple of times when small business employment grew, slightly, in the midst of bad news almost everywhere else. And now it seems like cheating if I don’t keep up with it, as [...]
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