TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Millions of small businesses globally, especially in emerging markets, have stayed offline for the better part of the past decade. Due to that, most of them still rely on scribbles using pen and paper or ledgers for bookkeeping and storing important information. In Nigeria, some go to the extent of keeping information offhand.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni’s AI-powered finance concierge platform offers bookkeeping, accounting, tax and CFO services, managing these for a flat monthly fee starting at $299 per month. Its customers range from pre-revenue startups to businesses generating more than $100 million in annual revenue. Zeni fits with that.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2024

Timely financial advice is critical for a company to sustain operations when revenue growth stalls Whether through the loss of key accounts or business slumps tied to economic downturns, small business owners need to take actions that will keep their businesses going until new customers are found or the economy recovers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Nowadays, technology plays a huge role in being able to run a business. And with so many people managing their businesses from home, these new technology solutions are needed more than ever. Stone DeSouza is the leader of the small business segment for Sage in the US. Sage and Small Business Support.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Register WhyQ’s plan to focus on improving their existing products and developing new ones to help small businesses better compete in the digital economy received a boost after it raised $1.4 WhyQ offers an eBiz app (WhyQ EBiz) and a digital bookkeeping app (WhyQ Kira Kira) for free to its clients.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kippa , the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 Kippa said the investment will allow it to develop financial products that help SMEs grow their businesses and grow its team in Nigeria. The company announced its $3.2

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2024

A list of technologies that all startups and small businesses should have One can learn a lot about running a business operation when forced to face a crisis such as COVID-19. Small businesses were put to the test and most looked to technology for an answer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

fintech offering a business current account with built-in accounting features, has closed £9.1 It’s noteworthy that Countingup has previously taken investment from ING, and the addition of Sage as a backer is interesting since both could help the startup reach more business customers. Countingup , the U.K. and beyond.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only about 25% of new businesses will last more than 15 years. And 20% of these same businesses might only reach two years. Just like your personal introduction, your business needs to be recognizable by its name. Your business is not an island. 7 t ips to create a bankable startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As we previously covered , often these small businesses run on informal credit and rely on money they secure from selling their existing inventory to buy their next batch. Digital bookkeeping is the startup’s marquee offering today, but Jamall said CreditBook is working on building and testing financial products on top of it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

FreshBooks has built a cloud-based accounting software platform designed to make things like invoicing, expenses, payments, payroll and financial reporting easier for small business owners and self-employed people (and their clients). In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Small businesses in Africa need digital banking services including plenty of credit. Although these businesses drive economic growth and contribute up to one-third of the continent’s GDP, they are often financially excluded from credit and other financial services due to their size and informality. Numida business owners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Proper , an automated accounting and bookkeeping service for property managers, announced Wednesday it raised $9 million in Series A funding in a round led by QED. He was looking at the maintenance side of the business when he realized how much the accounting part of the business “was almost a dumpster fire.”. “I

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We’ve all seen the statistics on how many businesses fail within the first few years of operation, and the current pandemic may accelerate that struggle for some startups. These businesses are making mistakes that not only hurt them during the current crisis, but may increase the chances that they will struggle in the years ahead.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

While an initial forecast serves as a roadmap for your business, it’s crucial to recognize that this map needs to be continually updated, verified , and adjusted as new data comes in. Doing so can improve accuracy and allow the internal team to focus on operational tasks related to the startup’s core business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

One of the biggest pain points for startups and small businesses is keeping up with back office tasks such as bookkeeping and managing taxes. It also helps companies access small business tax credits they may not have otherwise known about. . QuickBooks, it seems, just doesn’t always cut it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

There’s no end to digitizing the operations of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the traditional retail sector across sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria alone, this industry, worth more than $200 billion, consists of over 40 million businesses of varying sizes, according to reports. Image Credits: Pastel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Treinta , a startup that is part of the Winter 2021 Y Combinator cohort , announced this morning that it has raised north of half a million dollars for its bookkeeping and inventory management software aimed at Latin American small businesses. Lockdown in Colombia forced many small businesses online in a hurry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

She had seen firsthand the challenges of running a small business as a freelance makeup artist, one of her jobs while she was a student at Princeton. Helping small businesses run big operations is core to the company’s mission, Cohen-Shohet said. So she taught herself how to code, launched in 2016, raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Kenya’s economy is powered by informal businesses, which contribute 33.8% of the total employment outside of small-scale agriculture, data from the country’s bureau of statistics shows. It will also extend loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) based on data from its Leja app. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

OZÉ , a Ghanaian fintech startup that provides digital recordkeeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses, has raised a $3 million pre-Series A round. Working so closely with small business owners, I understood the problems they faced. And having seen how small businesses in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 9, 2024

Jiang was one of five women-owned small businesses to be awarded grants in the annual competition. All will receive a suite of small business services including bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, and business formation from Block Advisors for one year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

If you’ve ever been self-employed you know what a pain it is to keep up with the hassles of running a business. From bookkeeping to invoicing to paying taxes — it’s one big headache. Freelancers and self-employed people often turn to a number of different solutions to try and address different aspects of running their business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But if you’re running any kind of business, there’s just no way around it. At first glance, it may seem like Docyt competes with the likes of QuickBooks, which is pretty much the de facto standard for small business accounting. Image Credits: Docyt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A crop of investment apps, many aimed at millennial and first-time retail investors, raised small early-stage rounds at the beginning of 2021, only to quickly pick up much larger follow-on funding a few months later. Most notably, BukuWarung and BukuKas , two competing bookkeeping apps, both raised significant amounts of funding this year.

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Red Rocket

JULY 14, 2023

I was recently introduced to Tim DeBone a finance and accounting expert with The Bagchi Group , a business consultancy group in Morrisville, NC. They can also help identify small business and R&D tax credits to reduce tax liabilities At Formation (Pre Revenue) At the start, the CEO can manage the core finance functions.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Contributed by Carole Anne, the bubbly head honcho of Key Admin – A professional bookkeeping business in Australia. As a small business owner, you can expand your business by ensuring its financial health. Yet, much of the success of your business is based on good accounting practices. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

BukuWarung , a fintech focused on Indonesia’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), announced today it has raised a $60 million Series A. These businesses contribute about 61% of the country’s gross domestic product and employ 97% of its workforce.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I was eventually able to enroll in the full course, and I have ever since iterated over 6 different business ideas. For example, last year I was building an app enabling small business owners in Haiti (my home country) to do their bookkeeping digitally. Today it’s mostly done manually (pen and paper) if it’s done at all.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. The startup wants to address small merchants’ pain points by providing digital financial services, Kim told TechCrunch. In South Korea, there are about 7.3 Their workforces combined make up 83.1% million in its Series D1.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It is true that business owners are facing countless challenges due to the current pandemic. But, still, many people are ditching their 9 to 5 jobs to start their own businesses, In fact, 4.35 submitted a new business application in 2020 alone – up 24% from 2019 – and over 500,000 new businesses have already launched this year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Instagram Business Profile – This is Facebook’s newest engagement type, and targets users that have interacted with your Instagram business profile. With so many targeting options, you may find your audience has become too small to produce any measurable results. Remember: the smaller the lookalike percentage (1% = 2.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to deal with several siloed functions, such as company secretary, bookkeeping, banking, tax, payroll, employment services, insurance and more. million bookkeeping transactions and posted approximately $700 million of revenue in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For Gotter, it was more of the latter, and so this January, he began to explore other opportunities in the mobile money payments space, specifically relating to small businesses. Micro, small and medium-sized businesses make up 90% of all businesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

The past months brought unprecedented strife for small businesses, and the small business owners that have managed to keep their doors open are fighting hard to keep it that way. “The second draw PPP loans are meant to better support smaller businesses—the folks most negatively affected by this pandemic.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts. The startup focuses primarily on small and medium companies as well as freelancers. Qonto started out with business bank accounts because that’s the key financial component of European companies. This is one of the largest rounds in the French tech ecosystem.

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