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Steve Strauss

  • Small Business Columnist, Inc.
Great Northwest
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How PayPal’s AI Tools Are Leveling the Playing Field for Small Businesses

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By Steve Strauss
| Inc. Verified
Michelle Gill, EVP and GM of small business at PayPal, shares how entrepreneurs can make use of the platform’s newer tools. If you have been in the game as long as I have, you remember when e-commerce first arrived. It was a mess of merchant accounts, gateways, and dedicated servers. Then along came PayPal, and suddenly the little guy could sell to anyone, anywhere. It made the seemingly impossible possible.
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Nearly Half of Small Businesses Are Increasing Their AI Budgets in 2026—and Not for the Reason You Think

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By Steve Strauss
| Inc. Verified
Why small business owners are investing in AI to reclaim time, cut costs, and stop doing the work they hate. I have spent my career talking to entrepreneurs who are stuck in the middle. You know the place: You are too big to do everything yourself anymore, but maybe a touch too small to hire, say, a full-time marketing manager. Like many of us (guilty as charged!) you end up wearing a lot of hats, too many hats (and some of them don’t fit very well).
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The AI upgrade that could finally make legal help easy for entrepreneurs

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By Steve Strauss
| MSN Verified
LegalZoom's new human‑plus‑AI model aims to eliminate the confusion, cost, and friction of small‑business legal work.
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