finance
Increase in dollar amount of angel investments in 2010: 14% (from $17.6 billion to $20.1 billion)
Increase in the number of companies that received angel investments: 8.2% (from 57,200 to 61,900)
University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research
employment
Percentage of Americans age 16 to 24 with summer jobs in 2010: 48.9 (lowest since record keeping began in 1948 and the first time ever below 50 percent)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
marketing
Share of businesses that have a company blog: 65% (up from 48% in 2009)
HubSpot
business costs
Share of U.S. CFOs who cite employee benefits as the business cost about which they are most concerned: 75%
Grant Thornton
the workplace
Share of employees who say they learn more about their jobs from co-workers than from bosses: 67%
Leadership IQ
work-life balance
Portion of small-business owners and managers who frequently work
more than 80 hours |
during holidays:31% |
more than 40 hours |
while eating dinner: 15% |
Staples Small Business Survey
lending
Portion of large banks that have eased approval standards for commercial and industrial loans
To small companies*: 10.3%
*Less than $50 million in revenue
To all other companies: 18.8%
The Federal Reserve Board
start-ups
Portion of U.S employees working at
companies that are more than 20 years old: 64%
companies less than six years old: 13%
U.S. Census Bureau
staffing
Percentage of small-business owners who plan to hire full-time or part-time staff this year: 35 (up 9% from 2010)
American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor
Average number of yearsemployees had worked for their current employer in 2010: 4.4 (up from 3.5 in 2000)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
