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Business Strategy

Credit Karma | August 20, 2021

Credit Karma, the consumer technology platform with more than 100 million members in the U.S., today announced its integration of Credit Karma Money and Intuit QuickBooks Online Payroll, the number one online payroll provider for small businesses. Consumers pay more than $30 billion in banking fees each year. Through this integration, Credit Karma and QuickBooks hope to keep more money in the pockets of hard working small business employees, giving them the option to deposit...

Management

Pipedrive | May 18, 2023

Pipedrive, the easy and effective sales CRM for small businesses, today announced its new ‘Power’ plan to meet the specific needs of scaling businesses and drive more value from their CRM. Power features include more automation, flexibility and support when businesses are managing their busy pipelines and complex team structures. Small businesses make up the vast majority of companies in the US – accounting for 99.9% of US firms1, showcasing the vital importanc...

Toronto Sun | January 14, 2020

Paying for goods and services with plastic seems to be the most convenient thing to do nowadays, but only 5% of small business have stopped taking cash, according to a Bank of Canada study. The study, entitled Merchant Acceptance Survey, noted futuristic forecasts of a cashless world seem to be overblown. “We estimate that only 5% of merchants currently do not accept cash, and an additional 8% plan to stop accepting cash within the next five years,” the study stated, as reported by B...

Finom | September 24, 2020

B2B financial service startup Finom — which provides online financial services for SMEs, freelancers and the self-employed in Europe — has raised an additional $12 million (€10.3 million) to add to its previous seed round of €6.5 million last April. The total funding raised in 2020 is now €16.8 million, and this is before the company has done a Series A round. Investors include Target Global (Germany), Cogito Capital (Poland), Entree Capital (Israel), Avala Capital (Ge...