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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos. What is Amazon Getting from the Deal?

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

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Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. This is of particular concern with eCommerce businesses that can jump out of the gates at great speed racing to $100,000 or even $500,000 in monthly sales, but struggle to continue the growth beyond those milestones.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. Working for someone else is not fun.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. This is of particular concern with eCommerce businesses that can jump out of the gates at great speed racing to $100,000 or even $500,000 in monthly sales, but struggle to continue the growth beyond those milestones.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Publisher Platform (P3). Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared. Zuckerberg admits: If I wasn’t the CEO of Facebook, I’d be at Microsoft. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. Smartphones. Video Cameras.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, e-commerce, Relationships. . Unger, John T.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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