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Small business payments and marketing startup Fivestars raises $52.5M

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It’s a difficult time for small businesses — to put it mildly. Ho argued that those platforms (whether they offer delivery services, user reviews or marketing tools) all have the same underlying model: “They seek to take over a small business’ customer base and then charge them a tax to start reaching those customers.”

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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

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who aim to power next-generation technology without the need for expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars to develop and years to deploy. For deep tech startups, the capital game can be a tricky one to play. applicants signals that your innovation has strong technical and commercial merit and the potential for broad U.S.

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Aument wants to power your next marketing message

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Aument is carving out a niche in marketing automation for e-commerce stores, raising $1.5 CEO Emilio Di Marco met his co-founders, Alan Helouani, Sacha Landesmann and Mario Leon Rojas, in Latin America while leading marketing efforts for WeWork. After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs.

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UK’s Big Tech regulator ‘to boost switching, cut killer acquisitions’

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However the government still hasn’t confirmed exactly when it expects to legislate to empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) — saying only that it will introduce legislation to put it on a statutory footing “in due course.” UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech.

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Budgeting Hacks for Small Business Owners

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If you are just starting out as a small business owner, you can use this blog as a guideline to allocate your money and set your financial goals. But before that, here are some tips that will immediately help you unlock value in your business budget and make it more effective. How to improve your business budget .

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

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They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with.

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Fuzey takes in $4.5M to charge up its management tools for service-based businesses

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Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 CEO Lysgaard Jensen and COO Boyce met each other about two years ago and bonded over helping small businesses digitize. million in seed funding. and Canada.

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