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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. I built up the company, the Walz Group, with partners. 500 company. The company is doing great, and now has more than $30 million in revenues.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). So why did Larry need to return?

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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From entry level garage bands, to international superstars, they all understand that cultivating your fan base online has a huge impact on your career. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Talk a bit about your recent funding.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. To Your Success, Chad Ratliffe / Regional Accounts Manager.

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Real Entrepreneurs Exit If Their Startup Goes Public

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Only about a dozen U.S.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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At the same time it’s been getting easier and easier to use the identity of choice at your favorite social media site to establish an identity and log in using OpenID or Facebook Connect. Tired of the day-long round-robin between your e-mail, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, and any other services you use to keep up with what’s going on?

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