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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

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” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. However, since Amazon closed the platform in 2015, online shopping has exploded and the coronavirus pandemic has amped-up the demand for essential (and non-essential) online shopping. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design.

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An Unlikely Unicorn: Lynda.com’s Journey From Garage To $1.3B Sale

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In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5 In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous.

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