small business

8 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2016 by Sean Porat · across every show →

Everything said about small business, oldest first

Nov 6, 2016 negative
Opinion
Porat: Dun & Bradstreet lacks quality data on small businesses
“Dunbar actually does an awesome job at public companies and large private companies, but when you get down to the small business level, you know, they just don't have that great information.”
Sean Porat Nov 6, 2016 ▶ 5:58 EP 470: How He Got 10,000 Interested In Product Before Launch with Scorely CEO Shawn Porat
May 2, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
The Average Small Business Uses 14 SaaS Integrations to Operate
“I mean, if you look at the small business, the average small business has 14 integrations right now. They're using 14 SAS's just to survive.”
Dane Atkinson May 2, 2018 ▶ 13:08 1012 SquareSpace CEO Tried Acquiring First, Now King of SMB Data
Nov 26, 2018 positive
Insight
King: SMB software adoption is driven by trusted resellers, not product superiority
“One thing we've come to know is that all products, you know, that are pretty good is the small business is going to rely on the expertise of someone they trust and they're going to, you know, and in any given case, you could argue one product's better than ano…”
Brendan King Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 8:07 1220 How He Shields Himself from SMB Churn with 1200 Resellers, $2.3m/mo in Revenue
Mar 9, 2019
Insight
10% to 15% of SMB churn is uncontrollable business failure
“In small business, you're going to have, to your point before, you're going to have 10 to 15% that are going to naturally go out of business.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 7:35 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Apr 13, 2019 negative
Insight
Sheehan: Live chat is too difficult for most small businesses to support
“Frankly, if you're open 40 hours a week, the majority of the time you're not available. And even when you are available during those business hours, it's very tough for a small business to support live chat.”
Drew Sheehan Apr 13, 2019 ▶ 4:41 1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?
May 17, 2019 positive
Insight
Kellogg: SMB software requires a 'do-it-for-me' managed service layer
“Even if we had the greatest, you know, small business platform in the whole world for small business, there wouldn't be a lot of utilization without the service piece. We literally need to do the work for them. So we put together kind of the do it for me model…”
JB Kellogg May 17, 2019 ▶ 4:10 1392 $104m in ARR and Bootstrapped?!?! How?!
May 15, 2020 positive
Opinion
A vertical-agnostic strategy drove Ripl's small business SaaS growth
“Being a much more broad based and kind of agnostic as to which small business vertical we serve, it's really driven the growth.”
Clay McDaniel May 15, 2020 ▶ 4:03 1756 "Ripl Hits $10m ARR Helping 70k SMB's Create Video Content "
Dec 16, 2022 positive
Insight
Accounting data unlocks cross-selling for insurance, loans, and SMB services
“Accounting kind of cuts through a lot of the different Costs of a small business. We can see what kind of insurance you have. We can see what kind of loans you have. We can see what other services you use as part of managing your business. I think there is a r…”
Enzo Ottens Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 17:23 SMB Tax App hits $20k MRR by getting 1k+ Signups and Converting 20-50% to $35/mo paid accounts
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