Skedulo, a service that helps businesses manage their mobile employees, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Existing investors Blackbird and Castanoa Ventures also participated in this round. The company’s service offers businesses all fo the necessary tools to manage their mobile employees, […]
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The colossal failure that was the Fyre Festival is a cautionary tale about what NOT to do when planning, well, anything.
Just because it sounds good in your head and looks good on Instagram, doesn’t mean that it’s guaranteed to go as planned. Two documentaries and a spate of defeated tweets later, we can all be pretty sure of that.
To make sure that your business doesn’t suffer the same fate, you need a carefully constructed plan to make all stakeholders and customers happy. Bizplan is an app that will help you outline and organize a strategy so that you can (hopefully) achieve business success. We already covered this powerful tool before, but we’re dropping the cost down to its lowest price point yet — only $36.75 at the Mashable Shop if you use the code DOWNLOADIT at checkout. Read more…
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Learn how to make easy money on Amazon — and cash in on Jeff Bezos’ empire
Amazon isn’t just the place you buy toilet paper and dog treats when you’re too lazy to go to the store. For many, Amazon is responsible for their livelihoods, and it could for you too one day.
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Amazon’s Storefronts is too little, too late for small businesses
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Nice try, Amazon. Trying to make us think you’re here to support small businesses. We see you with your glossy new “Storefronts” webpage on Amazon.com.
In case you weren’t aware, Amazon has put a ton of pressure on brick-and-mortar businesses by undercutting them on price, sometimes with its own Amazon-branded products. Plus the company (currently worth more than $900 billion) has the power to charge business owners whatever it wants to have products listed on Amazon, because, really, what other option do they have?
But don’t mind that. Storefronts is all about highlighting products “exclusively from U.S. small and medium-sized businesses.” Amazon will air national TV commercials featuring some of those very sellers. The new online store will sell items from 20,000 small businesses, spanning 25 categories from back-to-school supplies to kitchen utensils. Read more…
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View More Amazon’s Storefronts is too little, too late for small businessesFunding Circle, a P2P SME lending platform, steps towards an IPO
UK founded startup Funding Circle, a p2p lending platform which focuses on the underserved small business market, has announced a “potential intention” to float on the London Stock Exchange. In a press release today, announcing the publication of a Registration Document for a possible future IPO, Funding Circle says that should it proceed with floating on […]
View More Funding Circle, a P2P SME lending platform, steps towards an IPODisrupting the paycheck, Gusto’s Flexible Pay allows employees to pick when they get paid
People should get paid for work they have done. It’s a pretty simple principle of capitalism, but a principle that seems increasingly violated in the modern economy. With semi-monthly paychecks, the work an employee does on the first day of the month won’t be paid until the end of the third week – a delay […]
View More Disrupting the paycheck, Gusto’s Flexible Pay allows employees to pick when they get paidStates will be able to charge sales tax on online purchases thanks to the Supreme Court
In a five-to-four decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that states can make online businesses collect sales taxes — even if they don’t have a physical presence in that state. Today’s ruling overturns a decision from the Court in 1992 that paved the way for the explosion of online retail in the United States. […]
View More States will be able to charge sales tax on online purchases thanks to the Supreme CourtGet ready to start seeing more local ads on YouTube
YouTube’s video ad creation service aimed at helping small business reach YouTube viewers is now available more broadly across the U.S. The company announced this morning that YouTube Director onsite, as the service is called, is now live in over 170 U.S. cities, up from only 9 previously – Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, […]
View More Get ready to start seeing more local ads on YouTubeMIT aims to spark innovation in Southeast Asia with its Global Startup Workshop
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s most hallowed educational institutions is turning its attention to Southeast Asia where it hopes to plant the seed of innovation among a new generation of potential entrepreneurs.
That’s through MIT’s Global Startup Workshop (GSW), a 20-year-old conference on innovation and technology, which is headed back to… Read More
botkeeper has an automated bookkeeping bot for your accounting needs
There are probably few things that small businesses hate more than accounting. It’s tedious, time consuming and totally vital to ensure that businesses can remain in business and don’t run afoul of authorities. Well, to make the process of bookkeeping a little bit less painful, a number of investors have joined together to finance botkeeper, which pitches itself as the chatbot… Read More
GoDaddy is acquiring social media marketing platform Main Street Hub for $125M
GoDaddy is acquiring Main Street Hub, an Austin-based social media marketing platform. The deal is for $125M in cash plus up to $50M in potential future earn outs, and is expected to close late in Q2 2018. Founded in 2010 Main Street Hub has rais…
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