Jonah Balfour
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Marketing and communications content that helps tech companies find their voice.

I write blog posts, guides, case studies, press releases, and thought leadership for tech companies and startups — content built to turn a product, a pitch, or a story into something people actually finish reading. My background spans in-house content leadership at companies like Mesh Payments, Wix, and Microsoft for Startups, plus PR strategy for global tech clients. A selection of published work is below.

15+ Years in content & PR
4 Agencies & companies
8 Published samples below

Writing Samples

Guide Long-form ebook · SaaS Operations

A Guide to SaaS Vendor Management

A manual on negotiating pricing, managing vendor relationships, and gaining visibility and control over company SaaS spend — covering vendor selection, renegotiation, and how to get the most out of every dollar spent on software.

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Guide Long-form ebook · Spend Management

Spend Management 101

A guide to navigating the changing landscape of corporate spend management, covering payment pathways, approval workflows, accounts payable, corporate cards, and how remote work reshaped the way finance teams handle spend.

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Blog Mesh Payments Blog

Plug and Pay VISA Is the Next-Gen Corporate Card Finance Teams Have Been Waiting For

An explainer on how Mesh's numberless physical card, Plug & Pay, solves the visibility, control, and security problems of traditional corporate cards by linking directly to virtual cards on a spend management platform.

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Case Study Velo by Wix Blog · March 2022

Lessons from Building a COVID-19 Volunteer App With Velo

The story of "Golden Guard," an app built in weeks to connect volunteers with elderly citizens in Israel during the COVID-19 crisis — covering the government integrations, privacy constraints, and speed required to ship it, told through interviews with the engineering team.

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Industry Report Velo by Wix

Rapid Web Development 2021 Report

An original survey-based report on how developers, freelancers, and agencies use rapid web development platforms — why they choose speed and cost-effectiveness over openness, which markets RWD serves best, and how the industry adapted during COVID-19.

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Opinion DZone · December 2019

Serverless Is Great; Serverless Sucks: Making Sense of the Serverless Landscape

Ghostwritten on behalf of Navot Volk.

A clear-eyed look at serverless architecture's actual tradeoffs — cutting through the hype to explain where serverless genuinely helps engineering teams and where it introduces new complexity.

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Opinion The Next Web · October 2018

How to Filter Marketing Fluff From Startups' AI Promises

Ghostwritten on behalf of Navot Volk.

A practical breakdown of how to separate genuine AI capability from marketing hype, written at the height of the industry's AI buzz — helping readers ask the right questions before buying into a startup's claims.

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Press Release Business Wire · May 2013

Viber Releases Desktop Version — You'll Want to Sit Down for This

A product launch release announcing Viber Desktop for Windows and Mac, alongside a major Android redesign and the platform crossing 200 million users — written for wire distribution to tech and business press.

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