I came across an interesting survey recently of 300 small businesses (with 10-100 employees). The survey attempted to determine what the successful small businesses had that their less successful counterparts didn't. What made a small business more likely to be successful? When the report cited "the ability to strategically use technology" as one of the five critical success factors, the report got my attention. After all, the theme of the Small Business 2.0 blog is "Using Technology To Succeed".
Here are a few points on technology from the report that I found particularly interesting, along with some of my comments: