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Selling an Edtech Business: The PositivePsychology.com Exit
PositivePsychology.com, a mission-driven edtech platform used by 19M+ professionals, was acquired in an 8-figure deal advised by FE International. This case study covers their growth, decision to sell, and the exit process.
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[NEW App Listing] Adobe’s Digital Economy Index jumps, Amazon writes a letter to Congress, DigitalOcean raises $50 million and more!
Data from Adobe’s Digital Economy Index has recorded a 49% jump in U.S. e-commerce activity in April, compared to a pre-coronavirus baseline. Online grocery sales are driving the majority of the increase, with a 110% boost in sales, while other sectors like electronics saw both an increase in sales (+58%) and price inflation for the first time since 2014.
[NEW SaaS Listing] GitHub has announced new features, Shopify becomes the most valuable company in Canada and more!
Microsoft’s GitHub has announced several new features set to improve the developer experience for its 50 million users. The new tools include Codespaces, GitHub Discussions, Code Scanning, Secret Scanning, and GitHub Private Instances, all of which aim to bring software communities together to solve the problems that matter to them.
[NEW SaaS Listing] Shopify launches Shop app, Amazon combats fraud, Tech Q1 results and more!
Shopify has introduced Shop, a first-of-its-kind shopping assistant app for customers and merchants alike. Designed to bridge the gaps in online shopping, Shop offers users the ability to easily discover local businesses, receive relevant product recommendations from their favorite brands, check out effortlessly, and track their online orders. The app is an update and rebrand of Arrive, an app for tracking packages from Shopify merchants and other retailers, which the company says has been used by 16 million consumers.
Why an Online Business is a Good Investment
If you have capital available and you’re assessing your investing options, you might be thinking about real estate, bonds or other investments. But, have you ever thought about buying an online business? In recent years, online businesses have become increasingly popular as an alternative investment class for investors.
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4 Questions to Ask About an Amazon FBA Business | FE International
This article is part of our Internet Business Due Diligence series, in which we provide you with information on what makes a particular business model unique when it comes to due diligence. For more in-depth reading on due diligence, see our posts on Due Diligence of an Internet Business and Advanced Due Diligence.
[Featured $1.1M Listing] Amazon launches Appflow, $484B Senate Bill, Facebook $6B Investment and More…
This week, Amazon’s AWS announced the launch of its data transfer service, AppFlow. This fully managed service lets customers manage the flow of data between AWS and third-party SaaS applications like Google Analytics, Marketo, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Slack. With AppFlow, customers can create and automate bidirectional data flows without writing custom integration code. AWS Principal Advocate, Martin Beeby, commented, “Developers spend huge amounts of time writing custom integrations so they can pass data between SaaS applications and AWS services so that it can be analyzed, these can be expensive and can often take months to complete.” The announcement comes as Google’s hybrid cloud platform Anthos hits general availability for AWS with plans to add Microsoft Azure by the end of 2020.
Social Following: Distinguishing Money-Making Websites From the Rest
The popularity of social media networks has been a game-changer for marketers and business owners, as it presents multiple opportunities for promotion. So many, in fact, that it can be overwhelming to develop a strategy and navigate the waters of Facebook, Twitter and the like.
Stripe Raises $600M, GitHub Makes Core Features Free, Zoom Banned by Pentagon, YC Cuts Pro Rata Stake, New Google Play Policies and More: FE International Newsletter April 17, 2020
Stripe raised $600 million this week in an extension of its $250 million Series G seen back in September 2019. With its most substantial funding round to date, Stripe is now valued at $36 billion post-money. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a major increase in e-commerce activity, causing more customers to “look to pay without contact and use banking services without stepping into branches,” according to VCs. This trend is predicted to continue even after the pandemic subsides. QED Investors founder Nigel Morris commented on the matter, stating, “This is a one-way street.”
Financial Times Ranks FE International No. 12 Fastest Growing Financial Services Company in the Americas
FE International is proud to announce that it has been named to The Financial Times’ list of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies for the second year in a row. FE ranked No. 12 in the financial services category and No. 304 overall.
