Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

And that’s turned out to be absolutely true, because the SaySay Boutique is a shining example of the kind of long-term small business success that happens not by the power of the product, but by the humanity, passion, faith and savvy of the person who owns and guides it. Portland is an interesting group of wonderful people.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. ” He added, “When you’re able to help people move $25,000 in a show — for a small business, that’s a huge deal.”

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NeverFriday

MARCH 8, 2018

Don’t have the resources for social media marketing? Reply and converse on social networks to boost your brand’s visibility. If you’re a solopreneur or a one-person business, you may not have the resources to buy advertising on Instagram or Facebook to find leads. I could’ve invested that money in something.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Metigy , a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns, has raised a Series B of $20 million AUD (about $14.6 ” Fairfull and other members of Metigy’s founding team previously worked at We Are Social, a global creative agency. million USD).

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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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Women on Business

APRIL 12, 2015

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change.

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CEO Insider

JULY 2, 2019

Small business sustainability strategies don’t just promote energy efficiency and social responsibility. They can improve a brand’s reputation, particularly with younger, socially conscious consumers. It involves reducing a business’s carbon footprint and maintaining long-term operational and financial health.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

Generating and maintaining awareness is notoriously challenging for small businesses, often working with limited in-house resources and without the budget for external marketing support. 1 But generative AI (genAI) could answer this challenge, unleashing a new wave of creativity for smaller businesses. 8/1/24, [link]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Joseph Heller is a small businesses expert and the CEO of Supplied , a wholesale platform for small businesses and brands that makes it easier for boutique owners to access high-quality, affordable items. I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years.

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KitelyTech

JANUARY 19, 2021

Searching for broad-spectrum ways to integrate Instagram into your social media marketing strategy can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. As with every social media platform, the name of the game with your business’s Instagram strategy is “engagement”. This article is the third in our social media marketing series.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

When First Republic Bank was in its final moments, Silicon Valley didn’t convulse with shock or lather itself into a social media tizzy. Marisa Ricciardi, founder and CEO of marketing agency The Ricciardi Group, wondered if the two bank failures called for the “death of relationship banking for small businesses.” “Now

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Seemingly lost in arguments taking aim at the outsized influence of large social media platforms is an appreciation of how Section 230 supports the broader online ecosystem, especially software developers. Developers rely on 230 to collaborate on platforms like GitHub and to build and operate new platforms rethinking social media.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The challenges that Jamall, one of the few female founders in the country, identified were cash flow, the role of credit and the social relationships around it, and the over reliance on “paper for everything essentially,” she said. CreditBook estimates that there’s a $45 billion unmet financing gap for small businesses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We have all kinds of social media for our personal lives, Slack for chatting with our co-workers, Discord for gaming and other communities, and Zoom and FaceTime for when we want to look someone (almost) in the eyes. But the business phone has been mostly stuck in the past. Communication tools are evolving quickly.

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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. His reason?

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

Social media is a big part of most people's lives, and has steadily increased in importance to businesses as well. There are two main uses for professional social media use: to inform others through engaging with them, and to learn from others. The second post will focus on learning from social media.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

But for any e-commerce business to thrive, its last-mile delivery arm has to be well figured out. Bosta is one such company in Egypt helping small businesses with logistics and last-mile delivery. Most of these businesses lack a strong delivery experience, and Ezzat left Lynks the following year to start Bosta. .

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QBurst

MAY 25, 2020

Small businesses thrive on in-store customers. Sanitizing and limiting shop occupancy are important safety measures but so is social distancing. How can small shops, with their limited resources, monitor their customers and enforce social distancing? Object detection in […].

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Capgemini

JUNE 10, 2020

We are here to assist small businesses to survive COVID-19. We recently launched the COVID-19 Social Response Unit to execute planned initiatives in a coordinated manner around the world to deliver social impact at scale. One of our many initiatives includes supporting small and neighborhood businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Across social and traditional media the feats of founders big and small are lauded for their genius on a daily basis. Added to this mix is how social media continues to promote an unhealthy fetishization of hustle culture and founding myths. Social and traditional media is amplifying startup culture, not creating it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It was then we profiled Olist, which connects small businesses to larger product marketplaces to help entrepreneurs sell their products to a broader customer base. Its technology enables small merchants to gain market share across the country through a SaaS licensing model to small brick and mortar businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

AAER is accusing Fearless Fund of racially discriminating against white and Asian Americans because it awards a $20,000 grant only to Black women-owned small businesses. The lawsuit resulted in a preliminary injunction against the MBDA’s business centers for unconstitutional racial discrimination.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

of businesses are micro-enterprises But although small businesses are generally considered to be the primary driver of new job growth, few have the technical capability to spin up decent branding and an online presence. This is especially true in emerging markets like Latin America, where SMEs comprise 99.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The backbone of Indonesia’s economy are small- to medium-sized businesses, which account for 60% of its gross domestic product. Many still rely on manual bookkeeping, but the impact of COVID-19 has driven small businesses to digitize more of their operations. Eventually, it wants to launch a SME-focused digital bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Hello Alice , which says it is “helping over 1,000,000 small businesses grow,” has announced a new Small Business Mastercard. In its words, Hello Alice designed the card “to meet the needs of small business owners where they are, breaking longstanding barriers for those who have traditionally been denied access.”.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

There are over 3 billion social media users worldwide, and over 70% of successful marketers are convinced that social media have, in one way or the other, contributed to their businesses’ exponential growth. The post Social Media Marketing for Businesses appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The software also helps with social media management, emailing and, yes, even the all-important delivery services that have become vital in the time of a still-spreading pandemic. “I got this playbook for helping small business with SAAS. It’s the pandemic that juiced the company’s growth, Sweeney said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Put simply, GlossGenius aims to be a “Business in a box” solution for salon, spa and studio owners. The end goal is to remove the administrative burden from the small business owners so they can focus more on growing their businesses. For much of the time, the business was revenue-financed.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeWitt said customers are fully moving online as digital penetration increases, and companies have to meet customers where they are, whether that be newsletters, blogs, social media or email. He added that the company is one of the fastest-growing that Wing had come across for a company this young.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

At its core, Take App serves as an easy way for those with little technical know-how to set up a simple website to facilitate online orders, replete with a shopping cart, payments, and a direct connection to WhatsApp for managing and tracking the final order.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Husk is committed to powering households, but our focus is first and foremost on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and public institutions like health clinics and schools. Nigeria and India are the company’s biggest markets at the moment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

An often-cited landmark report from the venture capital firm SignalFire says that creators are the fastest-growing type of small business. Now, if monetizing your creative output is how you pay your rent, you’re part of the creator economy, a buzzy new industry.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company’s flagship product, Sabi (not to be confused with a B2B e-commerce marketplace with the same name), is a digital bookkeeping app that allows small businesses to monitor and manage their transactions and customers, get insights into their cashflows, issue receipts, and effectively manage customers who owe them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Martincevic told TechCrunch that she grew up in a family of shift workers, including her mom, who worked in a shoe factory, and her father, who was a truck driver, and is interested in how tech can make a social impact.

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