ColoradoBiz Staff //June 3, 2013//
Colorado small businesses owners rated their state as among the most supportive in the nation, according to the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey.
“In surveying thousands of small businesses across America, we found that clear and consistent licensing regulations and relevant training programs were among their top priorities,” says Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com. “Given its strong rating by small business owners for the second straight year, Colorado is definitely doing a lot of things right.”
Some of the key findings for Colorado include:
“It is critical to the economic health of every city and state to create an entrepreneur-friendly environment,” says Dane Stangler, director of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which partnered with Thumbtack.com on the survey, “Policymakers put themselves in the best position to encourage sustainable growth and long-term prosperity by listening to the voices of small business owners themselves.”
The full survey results can be seen here and include full sets of rankings, easily searchable quotes from Colorado small businesses, regional comparisons within states, and Census data comparing Colorado’s key demographics against those of other states.
Survey methodology
Thumbtack.com surveyed 7,766 small businesses across the United States. The survey asked questions about the friendliness of states and cities toward small business, such as:
Thumbtack and Kauffman ranked states and cities against one another along more than a dozen metrics. The full methodology paper can be found here.