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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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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. Shopify has even partnered with TikTok to facilitate in-app sales for small businesses.

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7 Ways Every Entrepreneur Should Evaluate A New Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

The reality is that I can’t judge any idea in your context, because I don’t know your passions, knowledge base, and experiences. Also the same applies to dealing with the business elements, such as marketing, business operations, and finances. You may need a partner on this one. Test your ability to communicate value to others.

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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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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

socalTECH

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. We've created an easy process for big companies to build a living knowledge base.

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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. The sales process for solar in California is, although I don''t want to say it, archaic.

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Can you profit by serving early adapters?

Berkonomics

But I have been on the other side of the early adopter development process several times in the past, and can attest that it is great fun, but rarely profitable to be the first with any new product that requires simultaneously evangelizing or teaching the masses within the industry and marketing the new product offering. Our test sites.