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Black Americans are gaining share in the online microbusiness economy. While this demographic faces unique challenges, Black online microbusiness owners are more optimistic than their peers.
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This exclusive report provides the latest numbers and trends of online microbusinesses.
Read the article entitled “Spring 2023 U.S. National Survey Results”
The spiraling cost-of-living may be the biggest threats to microbusinesses, as almost one in three look to these ventures as their main source of income.
Read the article entitled “Cost-of-Living Crisis Threatens British Microbusiness Economy ”
See how many microbusinesses your county has and how they impact your economy.
See 8 key findings on today's microbusiness entrepreneur with the 2022 Microbusiness National Survey Results Infographic.
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GoDaddy’s in-depth annual survey of online entrepreneurs shows increasing diversity by gender, race, and economic circumstance. Here’s what they had to say.
Read the article entitled “Fall 2022 U.S. National Survey Results”
During the depths of the pandemic, Miami emerged as fertile ground for one of the few shoots of good economic news: a boom in people starting their own microbusinesses – in particular, people who had responded to the lockdown by relocating to warmer, often lower cost locales.
Read the article entitled “Can Miami Hold its Microbusiness Crown?”
Powerful. Uplifting. Encouraging. Incredible. These, among many others, are words I would use to describe the GoDaddy Open event in Baltimore.
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Black women have started nearly 20% of microbusinesses since the pandemic began, three times their share of the U.S. population. And in-spite of facing disproportional odds, 92% of surveyed Black female founders were more optimistic about the next 3 months, compared to 72% of other founders who were surveyed.
Read the article entitled “Black Women are Leaders in the Microbusiness Boom”
New data shows how shifting to e-commerce helped businesses survive the economic fallout from COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered a massive shock to America’s workers – one result of this was a burst of microbusiness startups. But because microbusiness patterns of growth vary from state to state and community to community, local economic development officials need to understand these entrepreneurs in order to help them succeed.
Read the article entitled “Brookings: Microbusinesses boomed during the pandemic. Now, local leaders need to support them.”
In 2022 Venture Forward, GoDaddy’s research initiative launched several new metrics available for download on our website. One of these, the Microbusiness Activity Index, assess how connected and active the community is in terms of online business activity. Using this metric, we’ve uncovered some important relationships between how robust an online microbusiness community is, and the economic outcomes in their respective communities.
Read the article entitled “Microbusiness Activity Index Q2 2022 Update: Top Gainers ”