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

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Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In Pilot strives to offer an “exceptional customer experience,” which is reflected in the fact that over 80% of the company’s business is driven by customer referrals and organic interest, according to Daher.

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WizeHire lands fresh cash to expand its SMB-focused hiring platform

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WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. With the shortfall not expected to end anytime soon , some organizations have turned to technology in search of a solution.

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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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The average number of employees in its current cohort of users is 30-40 per business, and the plan is to target organizations of between 10 and 250 people, with initial plans starting at $9/user/month. “You don’t need to build complicated products to target SMBs. The startup is launching initially in the U.S.,

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Does your SMB have the foundation in place for GenAI?

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For organizations, this means modernizing IT to support a digital workforce so teams can embrace new, flexible ways of working and collaborating. Reduce costs : Organizations can see long-term cost savings by investing in technology that boosts workplace productivity and reduces labor costs.

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

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IT managers suddenly found themselves supporting legions of work-from-home employees; planned system expansions and upgrades had to be put on hold; organizations needed new technologies to accommodate changing workforce requirements. SMBs are growing faster. The SMB sector is showing slightly stronger growth than large enterprises.

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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

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After registering over 110,000 accounts in the past year, the startup is now armed with $13 million in new funding and a goal of promoting.bit for decentralized autonomous organizations, Rita writes. Startups and VC.

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Why your business is never too small for an AI factory

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For instance, 95% of SMB IT professionals feel confident in their generative AI (GenAI) skills, as compared to 81 percent of enterprise IT professionals. As a result, these will lead to increased operational costs for SMBs—expenses that these businesses could not afford.

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