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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition. Find out more – Best Ecommerce Website Builders 2021. Shopify has even partnered with TikTok to facilitate in-app sales for small businesses. Service Sales.

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Honey Acquired By PayPal For $4 Billion

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In one of the biggest acquisitions out of Southern California's technology startup industry in recent years, Los Angeles-based Honey Science Corporation , which develops a savings discovery and price tracking tool, has been acquired by PayPal , in a deal worth approximately $4 billion. Honey was founded in 2012 by George Ruan and Ryan Hudson.

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Ecwid, NuORDER Acquired By Lightspeed For Nearly A Billion Dollars

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Two, Los Angeles area companies--Ecwid and NuORDER--are in a deal to be acquired by Canadian point-of-sale software developer Lightspeed, Lightspeed announced on Monday. According to Lightspeed, it will pay approximately $500M for Ecwid, split between $175M in cash and $325M in shares of the company. in cash plus sahres worth another $212.5M.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate? Contact our editors for details.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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9 Crucial Elements Of Every New Venture Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

The most attractive revenue model today for services is subscriptions, and for products it is sales and support. Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.