5 Hot Opportunities for Start-ups
One way to find a hot business idea is to follow the money: Where are consumers spending the most?
If that’s your approach, consider Intuit’s recently released findings from its Consumer Spending Index. It’s based on anonymized and aggregated data from more than 2 million Mint.com (an Intuit-owned budgeting tool) users who have agreed to share their demographic information such as age, gender, income, and location. The index measures spending habits from January 2009 to April 2013 and shows consumer spending is up nine percent from four years ago, and significantly so in certain sectors.
Here’s where people are spending their money today, along with several interesting start-ups operating in those hot spaces.