Morning Briefings

New figures out of the Census Bureau show that the rate at which Americans are starting new businesses is at a record low. That’s bad news for job seekers as well as entrepreneurs, with entrepreneurs creating 40% of all new jobs in the 80s but only 30% recently. These figures highlight the fact that despite the high-profile rises of the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and the increasingly loud buzz surrounding flashy, fast-growing tech start-ups, meat-and-potatoes small businesses spread throughout the country aren’t being created nearly as often as they once were.

– Inc. com
Start-up Fever? Actually, We’re in a New-Business Drought