small businesses

15 statements across 13 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2016 by Eric Rea · across every show →

Everything said about small businesses, oldest first

Dec 30, 2016
Assertion Supported
Rea: Small businesses go out of business at about 1% monthly
“Small businesses go out of business at about one percent monthly.”
Eric Rea Dec 30, 2016 ▶ 9:01 EP 524: Podium Hits $1m MRR in 12 Months, $4m Raised with 6500 SMB Customers sub 1% Churn with CEO Eric Rea
Apr 5, 2017 negative
Insight
Laja: Small business subscriptions are difficult to build due to high churn
“These people want short-term gains. They don't want to invest or they don't have resources to invest in anything over the long haul. And then the churn was terrible. So it was very hard to build a business around and we're on small businesses, really.”
Pep Laja Apr 5, 2017 ▶ 16:46 EP 620: ConversionXL Doing $200k+/Mo With 3 Products, Live Masterclass, Agency, and Self-Serve with CEO Peep Leja
Apr 18, 2017 neutral
Insight
Alionço: Small businesses lack the process maturity to pay for management tools
“We discovered that small businesses, they don't have mature processes enough to be painful enough to be willing to pay. That's why so many test management tools are free or they have a hard time trying to monetize.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 7:40 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Nov 19, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Frohwein: Kabbage lent $1.5 billion to small businesses in 2017
“We put out a billion and a half dollars last year,”
Rob Frohwein Nov 19, 2018 ▶ 2:34 1213 Kabbage CEO: We've lent $5b to 150,000 SMB's, Will Pass $300m in 2018 Revenue
Dec 19, 2018 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mask: Infusionsoft's ultimate goal is serving five million small businesses worldwide
“It's literally five million small businesses worldwide.”
Clate Mask Dec 19, 2018 ▶ 5:09 1243 Infusionsoft North of $100m in ARR, Details of Mars Mission to 5m SMB Customers
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Verblio shifted customer base from 80% SMBs to 60% agencies in 3 years
“So now our so now our customer base is now 60% agencies versus 40% small businesses and, Three years ago, it would have been 80% small businesses.”
Steve Pockross Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 7:58 1272 How This Pricing Page Drives Big Expansion Revenue with $260k/mo Verblio CEO
Jun 29, 2019 neutral
Insight
Valishev: SMB software churn is driven primarily by inevitable business closures
“The problem with our churn rate is that most of the times, businesses just close, and there's nothing we can do about it. When you run for a product for small businesses, it's inevitable.”
Tim Valishev Jun 29, 2019 ▶ 10:40 1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Apr 15, 2020 negative
Insight
Yanowitz: The Fed is not built to distribute money directly to small businesses
“The Fed, like when the Fed does these buyback programs and you know, gives money to the banks and things like that, or excuse me, tries to give money to small businesses. They're not set up to give money to individuals and small businesses.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 16:03 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
May 15, 2020 positive
Insight
Entrepreneurship and new small businesses explode during economic downturns
“Small, there are more small businesses that come in the market when the economy gets tight. Entrepreneurship explodes and our TAM is huge.”
Clay McDaniel May 15, 2020 ▶ 18:53 1756 "Ripl Hits $10m ARR Helping 70k SMB's Create Video Content "
Oct 7, 2020
Assertion Supported
Buhrdorf says small businesses use over 10 unintegrated apps on average
“On average, folks are using 10 plus different vertical applications that aren't integrated to get their businesses run”
Ross Buhrdorf Oct 7, 2020 ▶ 13:37 ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
Mar 21, 2024 neutral
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Schwartz: Upcoming 2025 regulations will force unprepared banks to lend to SMBs
“There's going to be some regulation coming out next year where banks are going to be forced to go back and start to lend out to the small businesses, but banks are not equipped to underwrite a small bit.”
Alex Schwartz Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 12:53 Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
May 21, 2024
Insight
Buhrdorf: Banking and taxes are small businesses' top post-formation worries
“Banking for us is really about, it's one of the, it's the number one next to taxes is the number one thing that, that Small businesses are worried about, like, oh my god, I just did a formation, you know, what kind of filing do I, you know, what kind of format…”
Ross Buhrdorf May 21, 2024 ▶ 12:19 Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
European Small Businesses Employ Two-Thirds of the Workforce
“Considering that they employ like two thirds of the workforce in Europe, they create 85% of the new jobs in Europe, and still they don't have this kind of basic infrastructure of external financing to grow and do much more.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 1:41 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Froda Has Financed 150,000 Small Businesses to Date
“So, so far we've supported a 150,000 small businesses and that's one of our super important KPIs.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 5:58 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
Sep 8, 2026
Insight
Onboarding Micro-Borrowers Costs Banks As Much As Large Corporations
“For a bank to onboard such a customer is just as costly as onboarding a large corporation that's requiring several million.”
Oliver Moseni Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 3:14 The Surprising Way This Startup Bank Makes Millions
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