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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets – and more – that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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GrubMarket gobbles up $120M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation to take on the grocery supply chain

TechCrunch LA

When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. “We are still the first mover in this space,” Xu said when I asked him in an interview about rivals. software platform.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? Greg Gillman: We’ve been around for about nine years. For agencies that work with large brands, usually it’s more about impression buying versus performance buying.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

socalTECH

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about? It was really great.

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Lymber, Founded in Early 2016, Surprised by Mindbody’s Buyout Offer

Xconomy

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. We’re basically an Expedia for fitness and wellness studios,” Lymber co-founder and CEO Doug Hecht told me by telephone after the Mindbody deal closed.

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7 Key Strategies For Joining The Freelancer Evolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Many solo entrepreneurs I know, who now work primarily from home, under-estimate their true costs, since they never had to worry about them as employees. Federal, state, and municipal governments are among the largest consumers of entrepreneur and freelance services, but client acquisition costs may be very high. Marty Zwilling.

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WeWork Gets Smart With Education for Adults and Kids

Tech.Co

Teaching kids as young as five-years-old about entrepreneurship is silly, right? And if you don’t think this kind of education is a good idea, you’ve probably never sat in a classroom for eight hours learning about fractions. Flatiron School – The Acquisition. Read more about coworking spaces on TechCo.