NEW AI-DRIVEN INSIGHTS REVEAL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ARE BULLISH DESPITE CONSTRICTED SPENDING
Entrepreneurial optimism remains strong across generations, sustained by technology and good purpose.
SACRAMENTO, CA—April 29, 2024—? Clutch , a distinguished women-owned consulting services firm dedicated to helping small business entrepreneurs and government organizations grow, launched its first inaugural?Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker .?This quarterly data analysis evaluates the emotional state of entrepreneurial spending, highlighting key reasons driving the rampant increase in people leaving traditional corporations to start their own businesses.?
?“This study is personal. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we've craved the data to understand the full landscape of the startup marketplace,” said Rachel Zillner, Clutch Co-founder and CEO. “The power of this tracker isn’t just in the insights coming from the data, but also the sense of community entrepreneurs will feel seeing their journey validated. Recognizing the pain points as well as opportunities ahead helps empower our fellow entrepreneurs and those who want to support small businesses.”?
Utilizing emotional segmentation data driven by BRANDthrō, the only AI research technology company to score human emotion predictively and quantifiably, the?Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker?helps us better understand the emotional state of entrepreneurs. Providing precise, predictive, and quantifiable means of human understanding, these datasets predict how people feel and will behave, whereas behavioral datasets tell us how people act.?
?The Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker highlighted that while entrepreneurs are cutting back on overall spending in response to strong economic headwinds, the majority of respondents were optimistic about growth. Other top insights include:?
Learn more about the study, gain access to the full report, and sign up for future notifications here: Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker
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About the Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker
Launched in celebration of Small Business Week 2024, the?Clutch Entrepreneur Tracker establishes a quarterly index highlighting the sustainability, growth, and emotional state of entrepreneurs in the U.S. The study was conducted by?BRANDthrō ?and funded by?Clutch , both women-owned, women-led organizations dedicated to providing insight and opportunities for mobility to small business owners everywhere.?
Entrepreneurs at heart and co-founders of Clutch , Rachel Zillner and Anne Descalzo, seek to empower those following the same path of optimism and innovation, redefining what the workplace should be and reintroducing the human element. Evolving from a team of two into 150 professionals dedicated to elevating workplace culture and expert consulting through a human-centered design, Anne and Rachel incorporate purpose and intentionality in all they do. Today, their portfolio includes?Frequency Coworking , a space that redefines the conventional workspace, and?MinervaVerse , a venture fund dedicated to breaking barriers and advocating inclusivity for female and marginalized entrepreneurs by offering business incubator and accelerator support.?
Methodology
BRANDthrō’s direct consumer response-based, data-scientific approach to emotional scoring is unique in its use of both primary AND secondary emotions, not just sentiment analysis or pure biometric outputs.??
The proprietary data science and AI used enables sample sizes of 100 per audience segment predictive of a population. The insights inform what matters most to whom and the experiences and language to drive action.?The sample for the Entrepreneur Tracker was cut across generations, genders, and regions.?
Learn more about the technology and approach to AI research:?https://brandthro.ai/learn-more/
Amazing things going on at Clutch- I can't wait for what the future holds for this incredibly talented team.