Small business

• Private Employers Cut Jobs in November, in Latest Sign of a Slowdown - Data from ADP, a payroll processor, is getting added attention because of delays in official statistics caused by the government shutdown.
• The mobile app has changed the low-cost franchise business model, but not the risks - Many new franchise business models are mobile app and internet based, but while the lack of real estate can reduce costs, many risks remain.
• An industry focused on death faces an existential crisis - The small, family run companies that make traditional memorialization products like gravestones are facing the dual challenges of tariffs and cremation.
• 30 Wildly Entitled People Who Truly Think The World Exists To Serve Them And Them Only - They don't know how to treat people with kindness.