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banking

Hatch Has Designed a Bank for the Bootstrapping Micro Business

A new online banking startup called Hatch just announced it has raised $20 million from Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital, and others. What’s Hatch’s angle? The

Dynascore

Can Dynascore Democratize SMB Video?

Yext Co-founder and CEO Howard Lerman last week launched Dynascore to automate some of the tricky A/V sync aspects of video production. What will this mean for SMBs?

Acquisitions

Why Did Walmart Buy an AdTech Company?

Many of us in the local space are familiar with PaperG. Victor Wong launched the San Francisco-based adtech company in 2007 and remains CEO. But

eCommerce

Video Vault: AirTank Brings Headless eCommerce to SMBs

The latest company to meet the moment for eCommerce’s inflection is AirTank. Specializing in a headless approach to SMB eCommerce enablement, we dove into its drivers and dynamics on a recent episode of Localogy Insider.

mono solutions

Localogy Leaders: Mono Cracks the Code for SMB SaaS

Local is hard… which is why few companies survive the game of selling marketing and operational tools to SMBs. One of those companies with proven staying power is Mono Solutions, whose CEO Louise Lachman joined us on a recent episode of Localogy Leaders.

Benchmark Bytes

Shifts, Sentiments and Impact Felt by SMBs During COVID and Beyond

In our flagship State of SMB report, we track and trend the needs of small businesses as they navigate changing customer expectations, new technology, spending ability, and scaling their workforce, among other key operational and promotional activities.

Fintech

Flowcast’s Tillful Aims to ‘Democratize’ Small Business Credit Scoring

Flowcast, a Silicon Valley fintech that builds AI-based automated credit risk models for lenders, announced a new business credit-scoring product today called Tillful. Flowcast founder

LocalAgency

New Yelp Data Illustrates Devastation in Dining, Retail

Yelp released its September Local Economic Impact Report today and the findings were pretty grim. The big headline from this report is Yelp’s estimate that

Local Search

‘Acceleration’ Leaving its Mark, Part II: A Conversation with David Mihm

The COVID-driven acceleration of existing trends was the topic of a post I wrote earlier this week. It was also a central theme in the

LocalAgency

Latest Thryv Study Shows Improving Small Business Optimism

This week Thryv and the SBDC released results from its two latest waves of an ongoing study of U.S. small business sentiment amid the COVID

agile pivot

Small Wins and New Discoveries in Tough Times

As we examined around companies like Snap, Stripe and Shopify (good things come in S’s), Covid-era lockdowns have a polarizing effect. High-touch businesses suffer (events

eCommerce

Message from Shopify Reunite: ‘Help As Many SMBs Survive as Possible’

Last week on its Reunite live stream, Shopify followed the recent trend among SMB software companies and announced it had fast-tracked a series of new

Asiacomm

Video Vault: The New SMB Reality

This is the latest in LSA’s Video Vault series. Running semi-weekly, it examines selected conference talks, including embedded video and key takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are

AT Kearney

Tricks for Selling Tech to SMBs

Technology companies would do a much better job of selling their services to small businesses if they would keep things simple and treat SMBs more

Data Scout

35% of the U.S. Workforce Now Freelances

Data Scout is LSA’s series that curates and draws meaning from third-party data. Running semi-weekly, it adds an analytical layer to the industry data that

Groupon

ICYMI: What’s New in SMB Tech

“ICYMI (in case you missed it) What’s New in SMB SaaS” is a periodic series on LSA Insider that curates and offers brief commentary on

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