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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. It’s a clear indicator that businesses want to expand their offerings and capabilities.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment.

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Best Domain Brokers

Neil Patel

If the deal is successful, GoDaddy’s agent ensures an easy and safe payment process for you and facilitates the domain’s migration to your account. It boasts over $65 million in domain transactions and was responsible for the seventh-largest domain deal in 2019. . In other words, you get peace of mind.

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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue.

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The New Rules of Indie Hacking Through A Recession

Outseta

because they productize table stakes functions that all e-commerce stores require, helping founders get their products to market more quickly and efficiently. Build self-service payment functionality first This may sound counterintuitive, but you should build your payment functionality as early as possible.

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How to Lower Your Company COGS

Neil Patel

Here’s an example: Let’s say we want to calculate an e-commerce brand’s COGS during the 2019 financial year. The closing inventory would be the inventory recorded on the company’s balance sheet at the end of the 2019 fiscal year. Finally, the company purchased $5 million worth of inventory during the 2019 fiscal year.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

Market trends: why is it easier than ever to build an online business? Despite all these growing pains, it’s still never been a better time for online businesses. You can now outsource most of your business needs, from e-commerce (like Shopify) to website building (like Wix). Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way!