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Communal Business

Seeking social involvement, entrepreneurs turn to community retail enterprises

Implications - Finding drive, particularly among a generation consumed with complacency, can be challenging, prompting individuals to look toward more social business innovations. Using community movements and local neighborhoods as a source for inspiration, budding entrepreneurs are leveraging social causes as base for emerging businesses, reflecting a move toward more socially invested business developments.
Trend Themes
1. Community Business - Entrepreneurs are leveraging social causes as a base for emerging businesses reflecting a move toward more socially invested business developments.
2. Crowdfunding Sites for Restaurants - Equity crowdfunding platforms are enabling entrepreneurs to fundraise for their hospitality-based ventures and giving future customers the opportunity to become capital-raising investors.
3. Co-working Spaces as Community Hubs - There is a movement toward rustic, stylized coworking spaces that put a premium on design aesthetic as well as approach to business.
Industry Implications
1. Hospitality - Equity crowdfunding platforms offer a new way to raise capital for restaurant start-ups.
2. Office Space and Design - Co-working spaces are increasingly being designed to foster collaboration and creativity.
3. Retail and Bookstores - There is a trend toward creating community-oriented retail spaces that offer more than just products.
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