Global markets can be critical to the local success of small businesses and technology, private sector advisors, and governments have a role to play in enabling their journeys. Technology powers the global opportunity Entrepreneurs are finding that their businesses can be global, even at very early stages, thanks to technology. Kavita Shukla, founder of Maryland-based…
The U.S. labor market is going through a major change as people turn to self-employment in record numbers. Enabled by the ubiquitous connectivity of smartphones, entrepreneurs are embracing the opportunity to become self-employed. Today’s entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have storefronts, staffs or even business cards – and better yet, some don’t even have to find their…
It wasn’t too long ago that new graduates would join a company straight out of school and spend the next several decades there. There was an implicit contract between employer and employee that rewarded productivity and loyalty with opportunity and stability. Back in 1985, 60 percent of Americans even enjoyed a full pension. For today’s…
Small businesses drive our economy. And earlier this month, the country celebrated National Small Business Week, recognizing the 28 million small companies that create opportunities for millions of Americans through employment and innovation. Their economic contributions are well known – small businesses create two out of every three new jobs annually and generate income for…
Within the next five years, as many as four in 10 workers in the United States are expected to be self-employed, due in part to millions of Americans joining the ranks of what is being called the “sharing economy.” That’s the finding of a new labor market study conducted by Emergent Research that predicts that more…
Starting and sustaining a small business has never been easy. And without access to financing and working capital, it’s all but impossible. Businesses large and small, young and old, need access to cash and credit to fund operations, build inventories and bridge the gaps between billing and payments. Yet for too many entrepreneurs, the ability…
Driven largely by the rise in the on-demand digital economy, a new kind of self-employed entrepreneur is rapidly being added to the U.S. workforce. Unlike their predecessors, many of today’s newly minted entrepreneurs don’t have storefronts, staffs or even business cards. What they have instead is access to the global marketplace by directly providing services…
