Invoice Indecision, a Thaw in Tech Funding, Anthropic Puts Agentic AI on Task

With the many challenges small business owners face on a regular basis, add forgoing pay for themselves. A survey by Bluevine found that 3 in 10 have invoice problems that cause cashflow issues that result in them not paying themselves. Host Gene Marks offers four tips on how to address the problem. In the tech startup world, funding might get a little easier with Congress voting to free up billions in grants. Speaking of easier, Anthropic’s tools, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, are performing tasks such as paying invoices and purchasing inventory with limited human prompting. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the next layer of agentic AI.      

Topics:

00:00 – Introduction 00:18 – Invoicing and Cashflow Issues 04:14 – Potential Tech Industry Funding 07:14 – Agentic AI and Small Businesses 10:18 – Episode Wrap-up

 Additional Resources

Meet Paychex: https://bit.ly/3VtM6bs

Learn About Invoice Factoring: https://bit.ly/invoice-factoring-types

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