The Startup Magazine recommends SizeUp as the first tool to find your big idea in it’s article Your Guide to Starting a New Business in 2017. According to the article, “…every business begins with a spark of imagination. Once you have thought of the idea, it is time to start answering some critical questions. Which market are you appealing to? Is that market already saturated? If so, how can you find your unique edge to stand out? If you seek professional
The Inter-American Investment Corporation includes SizeUp as a model for Fintech innovation to serve micro, small, and medium sized Latin American businesses in its latest report, “Harnessing the Fintech Revolution: How Digital Innovations are Revitalizing MSME Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean“. The report was developed in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, who conducted substantial research to guide and verify many of the report insights. SizeUp was interviewed for the report and is included as the example of enhanced market intelligence to small businesses. According to the report, “In addition to providing MSME data to lenders, fintechs are developing analytics platforms that can provide MSMEs with valuable market intelligence. These technologies process Big Data to glean business insights in real-time that would take enormous effort to develop independently. SizeUp, for instance, aggregates market and customer data from various sources to help businesses see how they compare to competitors in their industry and identify the best places to target publicity. Growing prevalence of solutions like these could improve MSME competitiveness and increase access to finance.”
SizeUp is on the list of 15 Silicon Valley Fintech companies that every bank should meet. The article describes SizeUp saying “All banks are trying to better serve/grow their small business market and SizeUp provides custom service and value to each of a bank’s small business customers, online through automation, and algorithms.”
The March 2016 Money magazine cover story, “Be Your Own Boss” recommends using SizeUp in “The Guide to Launching Your Own Business.” The article says that Step 1 is to figure out if your brilliant idea is a viable business and the first service recommended to figure that out is SizeUp, saying that, “…a nifty tool called SizeUp that lets you map out where potential customers, competitors, and suppliers are located – and pinpoint area where there is high demand and little competition.” It further explains that SizeUp can help show how many similar competitors are in an area, total household expenditures in an industry category, and how those compare to nearby regions.
Read the Money article on Time.com.
Fintech Finance provides key decision-makers globally within leading financial services organizations with reliable and accurate intelligence on emerging trends and breakthrough technologies, helping them to make informed decisions. During Finovate Europe 2016 Fintech Finance interviewed SizeUp about the work it is doing and its expansion into European markets to ensure its audience of bank executives are aware of the innovative services SizeUp can provide to European bank customers.
In the Landscape Today article, “Compare Yourself To The Competition And More…How Do You Size Up?” the publication discusses the many ways that landscapers can use SizeUp to compare their performance to their industry competitors. It also includes a video tutorial.
The Forbes article “Delivering Big Data Insights To Small Businesses Through Banks” covers the challenges that banks have working with small and medium businesses and the way that big data from SizeUp can be used to serve banks’ small business customers. The article discusses how SizeUp is able to help the banks better serve their small business customers using SizeUp’s tools, business intelligence, and market research to expand the possibilities of what bank services can be to business customers.
You can read the complete article here.
Markets Media’s Summer Trading Conference on FinTech concluded with a Shark Tank-styled event called FinTank. SizeUp was one of four presenting companies. The event took place at Carnegie Hall and the large attendance to learn about innovations in financial services resulted in a standing-room only crowd.
The venture capitalists and judges included Christina Bechhold, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Empire Angels; Michael Kopelman, General Partner, Edison Partners; Victoria Vysotina, CEO, VV Strategic LLC; and Catherine Wood, CEO, CIO, ARK Investment Management.
Read more about the Markets Media’s Summer Trading Conference in the article “Fintech Gets Real” from Launch Warrior.
In the article “2 Startups Aim to Help Banks Do More for Small Businesses,” Bank Innovation discusses how small businesses are classically underserved by banks and the ways that “banks are stepping up partnerships with startups targeting the space, and are adding new services and improving existing services for small businesses in general.” The article discusses how SizeUp advances what banks can offer customers through “business intelligence based on location, to show businesses threats and opportunities in their space. Mining information from hundreds of inputs, most publicly accessible, SizeUp lets businesses compare themselves to peers and see a revenue heatmap by ZIP code.”
Read the complete article at Bank Innovation.
Entrepreneur magazine selected SizeUp as one of five essential market research resources for entrepreneurs starting and running a business. The article From A to Z: 200 Essential Resources for Entrepreneurs Building a Business lists numerous online resources to help you successfully plan, launch and run your business.
Read the complete article at Entrepreneur.com.