What is the hardest stage of growth for SMBs? After examining census and business data for the past decade, BIA/Kelsey has identified the "troubled teens" transition from blossoming small companies (one to nine employees) to medium-sized firms (20 to…
The Local On-Demand Economy seems to be taking over tech headlines, not to mention VC dollars. We've been covering this "Uberfication of Local" for the past couple years and more formally in the past few months. We've been calling it…
On Demand Local Services -- a.k.a the uberfication of everything -- continue to expand into new local service verticals. We're seeing everything from lawyers to weed delivery (you might need those two together). This is the topic of a…
Yelp is acquiring Eat24, the online delivery and pickup service that competes with GrubHub, Delivery.com and other national and regional players for order-taking, food search and discovery. The service is being acquired for the equivalent of $134 million ($75 million…
Mobile payments won't take over the universe in 2015, as the tech media would have you believe. But it will have a noticeable impact on our favorite new topic: On demand local services (ODLS), a la Uber. That's where mobile…
