Recently FeeFighters was acquired by Groupon. It has been 3 years since we started the company as a hobby and 2 years since we raised angel money and went full time on the business. Our goals have always been to help small businesses run more efficiently, and by teaming up with Groupon, a pioneer in local e-commerce, we are able to execute on that goal even better than we were as an independent company.
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One of the coolest parts of being part of the startup community is the amount of information and success / failure secrets that are shared between founders. Here are some high-quality resources for learning great lessons from world’s top entrepreneurs and investors. Read more
According to Paul Graham, startup density is what saves startups in places like Silicon Valley, as it provides: Read more
This is a guest post from Natasha Murashev, a former FBI agent turned Googler who is now learning Ruby on Rails and working on her own startup. Read more
It’s a new year and for those entrepreneurial folk, an opportunity to start a new business. However, make sure to steer clear of these three business models which clearly showed their fallibility in the previous year. Read more
This article is by Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of Card Hub, a leading marketplace for comparing business credit cards and consumer credit cards. Read more
This is a guest post from Natasha Murashev, a former FBI agent turned Googler who is now learning Ruby on Rails and working on her own startup. Read more
At FeeFighters, we’re constantly on conference calls with other companies. We’re a scrappy startup, so we use free services when we can. I’ve been using a free conference call line from freeeconferencecall.com for the past year, and wondering – how is it free? Read more
Your coworker is late. You’re angry. “He’s always late!” you say to yourself. Instead of thinking of the myriad of external sources that could potentially explain his tardiness, you default to the fact that he is always late. Does this sound familiar? Read more
If you own a retail store and haven’t yet tried location based marketing, you might want to put it on your radar. Jonathan Bellinger, the digital strategy director of the marketing communications firm, JWT New York, told Entrepreneur in an interview last week that, although there is currently a gap between large and small business as far as success, small business location based marketing can take off if small business owners “get more create and offer addition value.” Read more
In my last post I talked about why you should leave your corporate job and join a startup. In this post I want to talk about how you can get a job at an awesome startup like FeeFighters.
Outright, online accounting software for small businesses, seeks to streamline business accounting. How are they different from other business accounting sites? Let’s take a look.
Lots of times FeeFighters users ask us what a personal guarantee is and when/why they have to sign on. This week’s kick addresses that issue as Sean talks the basics on personal guarantees.
FeeFighters recently spoke at a utility conference about how its participants can save money on credit card processing. After analyzing one of the participants’ credit card processing statements, we realized they could save 25% or about $30,000 annually on their credit card processing fees.
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. My task: inspire students to consider becoming entrepreneurs. One of my pieces of advice was to expand professional social networks by joining LinkedIn.
We were having lunch with our friends Sunir and Mike from Freshbooks, and Sunir mentioned the event SOBCon. I had no idea wtf he was talking about, but he then explained that SOB stands for Successful Online Business.
By the time we talk to business owners, many have been burned by a credit card processor. They reach out because they have been lied to, promised lower rates, and altogether feel cheated.
Many business owners in these uncertain times are looking for a way to turn around their flailing businesses.
We had a great time submitting, organizing, and speaking on our panel on financial institutions and startups. Here are some photos from the event and a great summary from moderator Felix Salmon:
I was reading the New York Times, learning from Thomas Friedman about the myriad of Islamic uprisings that are about to occur and I was presented with the attached ad.
