>>> (customer) found she couldn’t access her company’s financial information, including loan statements and tax returns, through Bench’s website,” The Information reported [1]
Yikes. Hard lessons are often learned multiple times. Do not entrust the only copy of your key docs to a startup.
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] thread>>> (customer) found she couldn’t access her company’s financial information, including loan statements and tax returns, through Bench’s website,” The Information reported [1]
Yikes. Hard lessons are often learned multiple times. Do not entrust the only copy of your key docs to a startup.
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/accounting-startups-...
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