Combination Accelerates Intuit’s Vision to Provide an End-to-End Customer Growth Platform for Small and Mid-Market Businesses MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU), the global technology platform that makes TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Mailchimp, a world-class, global customer engagement and marketing platform for growing small and mid-market businesses. The … Read more
Valuing the independent mobile money provider at $1.7 billion, the landmark Series A round was led by Sequoia Heritage, Founders Fund, Stripe and Ribbit. While similar in functionality to PayPal, the Wave App does not require that customers have a bank account and instead runs a network of ‘agents’ (small local businesses) who use their … Read more
How to get a free international phone number for business. With e-Commerce growing rapidly across borders, many people clamor for access to local and international numbers for growth expansion. However, getting such numbers comes with a high monthly cost price or recurring annual prices. But before I delve into how to get a free international … Read more
Top 10 Benefits of International Phone Number International Phone Number offers a great number of advantages. Wondering what are the benefits of a virtual phone number? From reduced phone bills to making a local presence, the virtual phone numbers prove themselves useful for the 21st-century lives. Here are the Top 10 Benefits or Uses of Virtual International … Read more
Looking to hire a business plan writer or consultant is often the way to go for most professionals. The truth is if you are like most professionals I have met, you will also prefer to hire a consultant to write on your behalf simply because most Professionals hate writing. So how can you do something … Read more
Business Plan Training by Penexus Consulting In order to help boost the success rate of more SMEs in this year’s Tony Elumelu Foundation’s Annual SME grant scheme; Penexus Consulting is having an open day for questions and answers on Business plan development and pitching. The program is for entrepreneurs interested in boosting their chances of … Read more
Enlisting the power of other people’s help Do you feel stressed and overloaded? Or that your career seems stalled? If so, then you may need to brush up your delegation skills! If you work on your own, there’s only a limited amount that you can do, however hard you work. You can only work so … Read more
What distinguishes effective leaders from mediocre ones? Is it their ability to make good decisions, their charismatic persuasiveness, or the clarity of their vision? And do the best leaders have these qualities naturally, or were they acquired at college? The good news is that you can learn to be a leader, just as long as you … Read more
People tend to make decisions reactively when confronted with emergency situations or when a disaster unfolds. In these circumstances, the best decisions tend to be those that have been thought-through and rehearsed ahead of time, a good example being the use of a pre-prepared evacuation plan if the office catches on fire. The normal decision-making … Read more
What is your Leadership style? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the way you like to lead? How can you be a better leader?