{"id":5935,"date":"2021-09-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T14:09:16","slug":"pandemic-start-up-boom-doesnt-show-signs-of-slowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5935","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Start-Up Boom Doesn&#8217;t Show Signs of Stopping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The pandemic seems to have boosted entrepreneurial activity so much that Americans filed paperwork to start 4.3 million businesses last year. This number is up 24 percent from the year before and by far the most since the government started keeping track a decade and a half ago. In fact, prior to the pandemic, the nation had been facing a steady decline in entrepreneurship.  The reopening of the nation\u2019s economy doesn\u2019t seem to be slowing this growth either; in fact, applications are expected to be even higher this year. The biggest gains have been seen in those industries that were hit hard by the pandemic, like food service and retail, but other industries, like construction and finance, are also seeing increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5936\" width=\"198\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Entrepreneur-Name-Tag-2048x1406.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you are a business owner that would like some tax guidance, contact our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/\">Hoorfarlaw.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic seems to have boosted entrepreneurial activity so much that Americans filed paperwork to start 4.3 million businesses last year. This number is up 24 percent from the year before and by far the most since the government started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[1152,1163,1162,1165,278,1164],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-entrepreneur","tag-pandemic","tag-small-business","tag-start-up"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}