Facts and Stats

May 01, 2013
82% of capital for start-ups is self-funded, 41% from Loans, 41% Lines of Credit, 24% friends and family, 3% crowdfunding, 1% venture capital
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May 01, 2013
47% of loans for start-up funding comes from small Community banks
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Nov 03, 2014
A recent report from Goldman Sachs Equity Research identified five areas primed for IoT success: Connected Wearable Devices, Connected Cars, Connected Homes, Connected Cities and the Industrial Internet, which includes the transportation, petroleum and healthcare verticals. 
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Oct 12, 2016
62% of businesses regard cloud-based services as the most important trend driving the deployment of applications using Public Key Infrastructures (50% in 2015) and more than a quarter (28%) say IoT will drive this deployment.
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Sep 30, 2015
By 2020, we will have over 6.1 billion smartphone users globally (overtaking basic fixed phone subscriptions).
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Sep 30, 2015
Within 5 years there will be over 50 billion smart connected devices in the world, all developed to collect, analyze and share data.
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Nov 09, 2016
Data production will be 44 times greater in 2020 than it was in 2009.
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Jan 27, 2016
6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30% from 2015, reaching 20.8 billion by 2020.
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Feb 21, 2017
A survey by Forbes Insights found that 91% of companies have found an increase in revenue thanks to the implementation of data analytics.
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Aug 28, 2016
Surprising to those living outside the southeast, Raleigh, North Carolina had the second greatest percentage increase in technology jobs from 2010-2015 (38.5%).
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