After more than 20 years in the industry, I've seen my fair share of these situations. Sometimes it's a large, commercial project with complex challenges and other times it's a small business that just needs their lot surface touched up – everyone has a budget they're working around. While these budgeting challenges can seem impossible and far too frequent, it is possible to figure out a middle ground and avoid losing money or ending up with an unhappy client.
As it often happens with learning opportunities, I learned the most from a job that had the potential to be disastrous for my company and our client.
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Businesses cannot wait for budget | Business | The Times
G etting ahead of this crisis is easier said than done. But how come Rishi Sunak had a much better stab at it last March when no one knew where the virus was heading?
The chancellor must have peaked early. Because, since then, things have got increasingly knee-jerk: a drip-drip of reactive measures, with little planning or attempts to fix the glaring holes in previous schemes. Why? Despite
Mambu raises $135M at a $2B+ valuation for a SaaS platform that powers banking services –
Challenger banks, incumbent banks, and all of the many businesses that are making inroads into any kind of banking service all have something in common: when it comes to launching a new product like a credit line or a deposit or current account, these days many of them are opting not to build from the ground up, but are instead using third-party technology to power these services.
Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7 billion (just over $2 billion at today’s rates), the company has confirmed.
Mint budget tracker app can now monitor your subscriptions - SlashGear
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Poshmark Sets IPO Price Range, Could Raise Up To $257.4M – Crunchbase News
Poshmark , known for being a social platform to buy and sell fashion and accessories, is moving forward with its initial public offering, saying Wednesday it seeks to raise up to $257.4 million in an initial public offering.
In an S-1/A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , the Redwood City, California-based company said it intends to offer 6.6 million shares priced between $35 and $39 each. The company will list its shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol POSH.
US weekly jobless claims dip to 787,000, land below economist estimates - Business Insider
The number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance dipped slightly last week as the coronavirus's economic fallout dragged the unemployment crisis into the new year.
Continuing claims, which track the aggregate total of Americans receiving unemployment benefits, declined to 5.1 million for the week that ended December 26. That came in below economist forecasts.
Nearly 74 million filings for unemployment benefits have been made since the coronavirus pandemic first drove claims to historic highs in March. That's roughly double the filings made during the 18-month Great Recession. Weekly totals continue to surpass the 665,000 filings seen during the previous downturn.
Wall Street keeps rising on Democratic wins, stimulus hopes
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rallying toward record highs again Thursday on expectations that the Democratic sweep of Washington means more stimulus is likely on the way for the economy.
The S&P 500 was 1.5% higher in the first trading after Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election and Jon Ossoff was declared the winner of a Georgia runoff election, tipping control of the Senate to Democrats. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 284 points, or 0.9%, at 31,114, as of 11:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.3% higher.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 announced for budget 5G phones: From better connectivity to longer
Qualcomm 5G technology: Chipmaker Qualcomm has announced its first 4-series mobile platform that would be equipped with the 5G technology – the Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform. The company, in a statement, said that the Snapdragon 480 would continue to further proliferate the 5G technology, so that users would get access to "global 5G connectivity".
The company quoted Qualcomm's product management vice president Kedar Kondap as saying that the company is continuing to accelerate the commercialization of 5G across the world so that 5G phones are more accessible in a world where people are now connecting remotely. In delivering mid and high-tier features for a reasonable price, the mobile platform would exceed the customers' expectations as well as those of the OEMs', Kondap said.
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