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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

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The company combines its software with accountants to do things such as provide “CFO Services” to SMBs without a full-stack finance team. It also provides monthly variance analysis for all its bookkeeping customers, essentially serving as a controller for those companies, so they can make better budgeting and spending decisions.

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8 IT spending trends for the post-pandemic enterprise in 2022

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SMBs are growing faster. The SMB sector is showing slightly stronger growth than large enterprises. For vendors targeting the SMB market, now is an excellent time to increase marketing spend and fortify lead generation and content marketing. Smaller accounts may yield more sales in the near term.

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Guardz emerges from stealth with $10M for SMB security and cyber insurance to protect against attack-as-a-service breaches

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. “You don’t need to build complicated products to target SMBs. SMBs are relatively easy, low-hanging fruit for malicious hackers these days. “SMBs just don’t have the budget or expertise to understand what to protect. You just use the AaaS tools,” he said.

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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, also made secure negotiation mandatory when connecting to clients using SMB 2.x Server Message Block?(SMB)

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SMB Technology Reliance Presents Huge Opportunities for MSPs

Kaseya

The post SMB Technology Reliance Presents Huge Opportunities for MSPs appeared first on Kaseya. Given that 28% of IT leaders state that long-term support for a remote work force is a top priority, it’s clear that organizations are realizing not everyone will be back in the office anytime soon. Read the complete blog post at Channel Futures.

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

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Prior to the funding, Givz had been working with more than 80 enterprise, mid-market and SMB retail and e-commerce clients such as H&M, Tom Brady’s TB12, Seedlip and Terez, and accumulated more than 40,000 individual users. Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional.

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Pry Financials raises $4.2M to make startup accounting more approachable

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Instead, they sometimes work with outsourced CFO services, but mostly rely on spreadsheets for everything: three-way forecasts, predicting runway, hiring and contractor budgets and investor updates. . “I FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform.