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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. Runs Shopify close with great sales features and has a Free Trial , but a small knowledge base and weaker website design let it down. Can be confusing to use, though.

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

socalTECH

Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

I instantly hit it off with Greg because we was a fountain of knowledge. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. How can you do a job half time? Watch this space.

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How OneRoof Energy's Solar Leases Save Money, Not Just The Planet

socalTECH

But, since it''s priced against the local utility, that investors can get a 9, 10, 11, or 12 percent yield. But, more and more, technology is allowing homeowners to get on their computer, and design a solar system on their rooftop and get a quote for it. It''s basically an arbitrage situation, from an investor''s perspective.

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Can you profit by serving early adapters?

Berkonomics

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”. We designed and produced special cards for the TI that would allow Apple Macintosh workstations to be used, with their handsome graphic user interface.

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It is satisfying, but rarely profitable, serving early adopters.

Berkonomics

Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”. We designed and produced special cards for the TI that would allow Apple Macintosh workstations to be used, with their handsome graphic user interface. In the meantime, we sold a second system to a large timeshare resort in Orlando for the same price.