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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. The platform must capitalize on user-generated content and other people’s work. Create and practice an obsession over customers.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

TechCrunch LA

The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said.

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Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech

TechCrunch LA

Clio last raised in September of 2019 when it brought in $250 million in a Series D financing. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Newton was tight-lipped about the company’s financials, saying only that since its 2019 raise, the company has seen “explosive” growth.

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