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

TechCrunch LA

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M

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How GoToMyPC Kicked pcAnywhere’s A$$

InfoChachkie

Noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously cautioned his design disciples that form should not compromise function. However, for many online startups, form should drive the design process. I hesitate to write about design, as I have never considered myself to be a "color or font" person.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. 25 Years of Writing Code. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!,

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How to Find and Hire a Developer

Tech Zulu Event

Then when hiring a developer to build the project, show the developer you already have sales and offer them a percentage of passive income if they work at a lower or no charge rate. Ask for is code samples. Try to identify developers that are flexible in their design.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. .

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