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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

As we grew to capture 16% of the world market in our niche, we successfully migrated from the single platform of the buyer-candidate onto hardware from any of its competitors – including IBM, NCR, HP and others. My buyer-candidate had previously licensed our firm as a distributor, a value-added reseller for its hardware.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Platform Are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? How much availability do they have to work on this effort? Hosting What hosting requirements does your application have? Do you have any existing hosting relationships? How big is the anticipated development team?

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22 Los Angeles Startups You Need to Watch Out For

Tech.Co

Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals. This company, inMarket, is a beacon proximity platform that provides mobile location solutions to apps, brands, and retailers. HATCHBEAUTY Products, LLC. KabaFusion. StackCommerce. Xencor Inc.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

Epic Games is the creator of Unreal Engine technology, which is used by millions of developers to ship visually stunning, high-quality games and experiences across PC, console, mobile, VR and AR platforms. is a game-based learning platform with more than 50 million monthly active users in 180 countries.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Bambee Raises $15 Million for HR Platform

L.A. Business Journal

has raised $15 million in Series B funding for its human resources platform for small businesses. Santa Monica-based Bambee Inc.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

Both Sides of the Table

I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. Simply put: We never intended to build a business on one company’s platform and despite market perceptions – we never did

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