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Business Strategy

OnDeck | May 25, 2022

OnDeck announced a growing list of strategic partnerships, including SoFi Technologies, Inc and LendingTree. The partnership aims at helping small businesses around the country. These partnerships combine best-in-class digital lending products and FinTech offerings with OnDeck's Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) expertise, providing small businesses with more options for gaining easy access to growth-supporting working capital. With the help of its strateg...

Business Wire | February 07, 2020

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (“SBEI”) showed companies hit the ground running with hiring in 2020, documenting a seasonally adjusted growth rate of 1.61% in January. This is the highest January reading since the metric’s inception in June 2009. The CBIZ SBEI tracks payroll and hiring trends for over 3,500 companies that have 300 or fewer employees, providing broad insight into small business trends. While January generally sees small businesses scale down their empl...

Coin Rivet | January 17, 2020

Recent research by insurance firm Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) and Zogby Analytics suggests that newly formed companies are far more likely to accept cryptocurrency payments than larger organisations. The survey, commissioned as part of an investigation into risk management for small and fledgling business, took place in October 2019 and examined over 500 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the United States. SMEs are defined as having an annual revenue under $5 million with less than...

StarTribune.com | March 18, 2020

Tan Do has been in the restaurant business for 23 years and his Skyway Wok restaurant attracts many workers in downtown Minneapolis everyday. But he closed it starting Wednesday for at least the next week or two. Few people stopped in Tuesday and even takeout orders didn’t come after downtown offices emptied and state leaders told restaurants to close to slow coronavirus. “I’ve not experienced anything like this before,” he said. “I have no plan right now. We don&rs...