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September 20, 2019

Video: Foursquare’s Rise as the Location Layer

This is the latest in LSA’s Video Vault series. Running semi-weekly, it examines selected conference talks and video clips, including embedded video and key takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Check out the entire series here. One saying that’s come out of Adam Draper’s Boost VC incubator is “Be the cockroach.” Though rather pejorative-sounding at first,…

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September 19, 2019

Money Keeps Flowing into Restaurant Vertical

This week the Toronto-based restaurant point-of-sale player TouchBistro has raised CAD158 million in a Series E round led by OMER Growth Equity. TouchBistro claims 16,000 restaurant clients in more than 100 countries. The company says it processes $11 billion in sales annually. According to the press release announcing the round, “The funds will be used by…

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September 19, 2019

What’s the Best SMB Website Builder? Part III: Go Daddy Expands

This is part III in our series on SMB website builders. See the whole series here.  We’re starting to sense a pattern. Website builders continue to expand their functionality to gain competitive edge and “one-stop-shop” appeal. This is done for all the reasons explored in Part II of this series, such as greater ARPU and…

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September 18, 2019

What’s the Best SMB Website Builder? Part II: Constant Contact Enters

This is part II in our series on SMB website builders. Part III will publish tomorrow and others will follow. See the whole series here.  Email marketing powerhouse Constant Contact this week became the latest entrant to the website-builder competitive landscape. Along with websites, it’s also launching adjacent/complimentary services such as a logo maker, eCommerce…

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September 17, 2019

The Buy-it-Yourself Model Makes Landfall in Local TV

Those of you who know me have probably heard my pitch for the buy-it-yourself ad platform for local and small businesses. Perhaps you’ve heard it more than once. I can’t recall the exact date when I first made the case for a BIY platform. I think it was about four years ago, when I was…

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September 17, 2019

Is There a Market Gap for a ‘Slack For Non-Desk Workers?’

Data Scout is LSA’s series that curates and draws meaning from third-party data. Running semi-weekly, it adds an analytical layer to the industry data that we encounter in daily knowledge building. For LSA original data, see the separate Modern Commerce Monitor™️ series. There’s lots of attention and innovation focused on productivity for the knowledge workers…

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September 13, 2019

ICYMI: What’s New in SMB SaaS

“ICYMI (in case you missed it) What’s New in SMB SaaS” is a periodic series on LSA Insider that curates and offers brief commentary on recent events related to the emerging SMB SaaS ecosystem that you may have overlooked.  WeWork IPO on the Rocks WeWork’s IPO woes do not appear to be abating. Tech Crunch…

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September 13, 2019

Video Vault: ‘Rundles’ (Recurring Bundles) are the New Norm

This is the latest in LSA’s Video Vault series. Running semi-weekly, it examines selected conference talks including embedded video and key takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Check out the entire series here. What can we expect from the worlds of tech and media over the next year? Oddsmaking in tech is always tough but NYU professor…

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September 12, 2019

Stripe Steps Closer to One-Stop-Shop For SMB Fintech

Stripe announced at its Sessions developer event this week that it will issue a credit card in 45 countries. This comes one week after the related launch of Stripe Capital. Altogether, it brings the company from payments gateway to lender and, more notably, a step closer to being a one-stop-shop for SMB fintech. It will…

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September 11, 2019

Shopify Adds to Its Anti-Amazon Arsenal

Shopify just plopped down $450 million to raise its logistics game as part of its push to not just be an Amazon alternative, but to take the eCommerce Megatron on directly. Not too long ago, we were talking about Shopify being in a battle with Square and Squarespace to become a single source for presence, point…

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