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

TechCrunch LA

Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. The founder pair said they wanted to work with her because of her knowledge base of B2B marketplaces and experience in scaling this type of business.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in. Selz currently has a user base of more than 125,000. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design. 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. I love learning so this is a great process.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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

socalTECH

There''s been a subtle--but very significant shift--in the solar power market in recent years, particularly in California, where it''s actually cheaper in many cases to lease solar panels on your roof, than to pay the power company. There are more and more techniques coming to market to provide more awareness.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.