New businesses starts hit record high in 2020, thanks to internet

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The number of entrepreneurs starting new businesses hit a record high in 2020, despite the pandemic’s effects on the economy, Axios reports.  An analysis by University of Maryland economist John Haltiwanger shows that one reason why new businesses opened in droves is because it was easier to start a business last year than it was

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