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Buy.com: December Sales Up

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Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is continuing to report good sales this holiday season, saying today that it has seen its revenues grow over 40 percent for the first 15 days of December, compared with 2007. Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases. READ MORE>>

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue. How do clients license your software?

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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5 Companies Millennials Avoid – And What It Means For Your Brand

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So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? The iconic brand has been in business since 1903 and while other motorcycle companies such as BMW, Ducati and KTM have been seeing an increase in sales, Harley have seen U.S. sales falling 3.9 Applebee’s.

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. That might be check-ins, that might be photos, reviews, likes, all of those things are in one place. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). Another example.