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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. 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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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

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. That is not to say the Partners are breathing down their neck. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

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. That is not to say the Partners are breathing down their neck. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Can you profit by serving early adapters?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] First Hyatt Hotels, then Marriott Corporation called me to their respective headquarters to consult with their executives on this subject under a non-disclosure with each. I was not alone among hotel industry executives curious for more information. Our test sites. Our mundane, but profitable solution.

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It is satisfying, but rarely profitable, serving early adopters.

Berkonomics

Email readers continue here.] Apple, for example, was nowhere near the first to introduce an MP3 handheld music player. The costs in playing such a dual role are many times that of those in positioning a new product in a niche already opened by another. And statistically, the first product into a niche is very rarely the one to succeed. .