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Fintech lenders to benefit from government’s $2 billion SMB funding package
The government has thrown its support behind the nation’s SMBs with the announcement of a major new fund using Commonwealth bonds to back small business.
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How developers are solving big challenges for small business
“Small businesses don’t have the revenue to engage a developer, so the solutions have to be generic enough so most small businesses can use them but specific enough to solve a particular problem.”
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Melbourne salon management startup Honee is taking on pen and paper and the phone
Despite the wealth of booking platforms out there, Honee posits that booking a salon service still, more often than not, means having to pick up the phone.
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Melbourne fintech Assembly Payments partners with Westpac to launch payment system for SMBs
Westpac has partnered with Melbourne fintech company Assembly Payments to launch Presto, a payments solution for small businesses, to its business customers.
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GoDaddy launches push to capture 60 percent of Australian small businesses without a website
After spending its first few years in the Australian market getting a lay of the land, the local arm of global web domain registrar GoDaddy has launched a big marketing push taking aim at the 60 percent of small businesses that don’t have a website.
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Audacious Digital is helping to develop Toowoomba’s SMB landscape by getting businesses online
Digital development and design agency Audacious Digital came out of a Global Startup Battle weekend run at Toowoomba coworking space Canvas in 2015.
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Audacious Digital is helping to develop Toowoomba’s SMB landscape by getting businesses online
Growing up, Julie Boulton dreamed of being a brain surgeon, because she was fascinated by the way humans work. A couple of years into her medical degree, however, she was diagnosed with a brain disorder; having developed tremors, a career as a surgeon was suddenly off the table. “One day I was sitting on the… Read more »
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Brisbane startup Writally helps SMBs with their content marketing through blog post ‘recipes’
Writally simply asks wannabe bloggers what kind of post they are looking to write and then delivers them a step by step recipe to help them actually write it.
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Campaign Monitor wants to help small businesses grow by harnessing data
Bard is particularly passionate about the small to medium businesses that make up the bulk of the 200,000 clients using Campaign Monitor.
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Sydney crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood partners with Impact Seed to grow social enterprise ecosystem
Sydney crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood has announced a new partnership with Western Australia non-for-profit Impact Seed to stimulate the social enterprise ecosystem in Australia. The partnership will focus on helping social businesses harness the power of crowdfunding and explore new markets and opportunities.
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Melbourne’s Powered Local helps small businesses market through customer wifi access
Melbourne startup Powered Local is looking to help small businesses to hone in on perhaps the most valuable form of marketing: word of mouth.
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Small business lending startup Moula adds Chris Ridd to its board
Lending startup Moula, which provides small businesses with up to $250,000 in loans based on their data, has today announced the addition of Chris Ridd, former managing director of Xero, to its board as it gears up for growth.
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Australian delivery startup Sendle announces partnership with NAB
Australian delivery service startup Sendle has today announced a partnership deal with NAB to improve parcel delivery for the bank’s small business customers around Australia. The collaboration is part of Sendle’s aim to help small businesses take on big businesses by levelling the logistics playing field.
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NAB and Telstra partner in a startup joint venture to offer small businesses a digital marketplace
Today NAB and Telstra announce a startup joint venture to offer small businesses a digital marketplace. The new marketplace called Proquo will provide more than two million Australian small businesses an online platform where they can network, trade or swap services with one another.
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Sydney B2C startup InPin.biz offers digital content creation for small businesses
Looking to further support and boost local businesses working in the B2C sector is Sydney startup InPin.biz. The startup is creating an online ecosystem for small businesses and diverse professionals to digitally market themselves.
