Michael Eagar | Internet Entrepreneur

Here is a great statistic on Funding Small Businesses with Credit Cards from Inc. Mag October 2006 issue. How many businesses use credit card financing in their small business in 2000 vs. 2006?:

2000 50% of small businesses used credit cards for working capital
2006 11% of small [...]

Thanks to the U.S. Census and Inc. magazine May 2006 for these stats on the Cities with Highest and Lowest Incomes.
Highest Median Household Income Cities:

Sugar Land, Texas - $84,842
Missouri City, Texas - $71,902
San Jose, California - $71,765
Coral Springs, Florida - $65,062
Anchorage, Alaska - $61,595

Lowest Median Household Income Cities:

Miami, Florida - $24,031
Newark, New Jersey - $26,309
Cleveland, [...]

Thanks to my friend Richard for this one on Google Search Trends.  I am glad to see that Google is finding ways to release some of its search information through various products.  Below is the graph for the keyword “Iraq”, and the boxes A-F indicate certain media articles or news casts.
This one is very interesting [...]

I visited the U.S. Census website and noted some interesting statistics on the States with Highest and Lowest Median Household Income.  Here are some takeaways:
States with Highest Median Household Income (U.S. Average is $44,473):

New Hampshire - $57,352
New Jersey - $56,772
Maryland - $56,763
Connecticut - $55,970
Minnesota - $55,914
Alaska - $54,627
Virginia - $53,275
Hawaii - $53,123
Massachusetts - $52,354
Colorado - [...]

Alexa reports that linkedin.com is one of the fastest growing websites in the world right now. I don’t know the reason for the massive spike in traffic, but check out the Linkedin.com Growth Chart from Jimmy Z
I have seen amazing growth, but what happened at the end of April to the Linkedin.com Growth Chart. [...]

Great article on the Best and Hottest Cities for Employment in the U.S. from May 2006 Inc. magazine.  The list is broken down into small cities, midsize cities and large cities, here are some takeaways:
Hottest Small Cities (employment base of less than 150,000):

#1 = Yuma, Arizona
#2 = St. George, Utah
St. George is attracting mega growth [...]

Stanford University recently provided and interesting statistic for how many Hours a Week Gaming the average gamer participates in. The average gamer of Mass Multi Player games such as World of Warcraft or Half-Life spend an average of 20 hours a week playing. The average console gamer spends about 7 hours a week [...]

BusinessWeek in Jan 0, 2006 edition noted that this year there will be a lot of New Number One Companies. Here are a few:

Pepsi will beat out Coke in stock market cap for the first time
SBC will beat out Verizon
WAMCO will beat out PIMCO
AMGEN will beat out GENENTECH

I think it will be interesting to [...]

Great article in Fast Company April 2006 edition on Cell Phone Statistics. The survey was based on 3000 users ages 15-35. Here are some take-aways:
81% of cell phone users sleep with their cell phone on.
31% of Americans who said a cell phone relfects as much about a person as a car does.
26% of [...]

There is a good article in the April 2006 edition of Fast Company on Medical Digital Records. These statistics are interesting:
1. Number of physicians in the U.S. = 700,300.
2. % of physicians who completely use digital records = 14%.
3. Number of physicians using Cerner Systems = 35,000.
4. Number of hospitals in the U.S. = [...]