Small Business Blogs

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/new-hire-earnings-by-firm-age-qwi-2024-2025/

Census data: new hires in stable jobs at firms aged 0 to 1 year averaged $3,397 a month, 78.9% of the $4,306 at firms aged 11 or more (2024 to 2025).

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/public-data-protocol/

The pre-registered rules, amendments and checks behind Kamyar Shah's studies of federal data on management, turnover, benefits, AI use and SBA loans.

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/advertising-share-of-receipts-by-sector-irs-sole-proprietorship-2023/

IRS 2023 sole proprietorship returns: advertising was 1.18 cents per aggregate receipts dollar. Rank correlation with employer job growth: minus 0.09.

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/coo-cost-questions-ai-assistants/

Four AI assistant API configurations answered four COO cost questions 10 times each. Only one question had enough comparable answers to compare them.

10/05/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/majority-family-owned-firms-by-employment-size-census-abs-2023/

Census 2023: among employer firms that answered, 23.1% with 1 to 4 employees were majority family-owned, against 40.8% with 250 to 499 employees.

10/05/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/under-50-establishment-benefits-access-bls-2026/

BLS, March 2026: 75% of private industry workers at establishments with fewer than 50 workers had paid sick leave access, against 91% at 500 or more.

10/05/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/manufacturing-plant-management-score-gap-2015-2021/

Census manufacturing data: the management-structure gap between plants with 1 to 4 and 2,500 or more employees was 0.31 in 2015 and 0.34 in 2021.

08/20/2026

Workflow optimization has a shortlist worth starting from. Lean names seven kinds of waste, and all seven turn up inside the top three workflows of most small businesses.
https://cxo.la/workflow-optimization

08/19/2026

A chief marketing officer cmo mandate has shifted. Accountability moved from brand and campaign production to pipeline contribution, acquisition cost and revenue.
https://cxo.la/chief-marketing-officer

08/19/2026

Time management skills are sold as a performance practice. A large meta analysis found the effect concentrates in wellbeing instead, which changes why it is worth teaching.
https://cxo.la/time-skills