Which States Love and Hate Small Business? | US Daily Review

By US Daily Review Staff.

Recently Thumbtack.com, in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, released new data showing that?Idaho,?Texas,?Oklahoma?and?Utah?all earned A+?s for their friendliness towards small businesses. ?In contrast, small business owners gave?California,?Hawaii,?Vermont, and?Rhode Island?an F, while?New York?narrowly avoided this lowest category with a D grade. ?Top performing cities included?Oklahoma City,?Dallas-Ft. Worth?andSan Antonio. ?

There are a lot of ?business climate rankings,? but there aren?t any that draw upon considerable data from small business owners themselves. The Thumbtack.com Small Business Survey is the only survey to draw data from an extensive, nationwide universe of job creators and entrepreneurs themselves in order to investigate the best places in the country to do business.

?Six thousand small business owners have told an unusually nuanced story about what they value in their local government,? said?Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com. ?Although?Texas?and?Idaho?clearly come out on top as the nation?s friendliest states towards small business, entrepreneurs value a lot more than just low tax rates. Easy-to-understand licensing regulations and well-publicized training programs are critical tools necessary to support small business.?

Some of the survey?s key findings include:

• Texas?had three of the top five cities (Dallas-Fort Worth,?San Antonio?and?Austin), while?California?was home to the bottom three (Los Angeles,?San Diego?and?Sacramento).
• Small businesses said licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining overall business-friendliness.
• An important predictor of small business friendliness was whether small business owners are aware of the state or local government offering training programs for small businesses.

?Asking entrepreneurs to rank state friendliness to their businesses is a powerful resource for helping policymakers understand the needs of business owners and for helping aspiring founders understand the full dimensions of their business environment,? said?Dane Stangler, director of research at the Kauffman Foundation.

According to a company statement, ?Thumbtack.com surveyed 6,022 small businesses across?the United States. The survey asked questions about the friendliness of states towards small business and about small business finances in order to measure states and cities along 21 metrics.?Thumbtack.com is a place where you can hire help locally. Need a?DJ,?carpenter,?boot camp instructor, or?hot dog truck caterer? ?Tell us what you need, and we?ll bring you 3-5 bids on that job to your email inbox within 24 hours. More than 275,000 small businesses have listed their services on Thumbtack nationwide.?

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