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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

socalTECH

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. However Gmail is only private email conversations. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. If you make this cut then they will usually defer the payment until your funding. Our lives are intertwined.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addante

The revenue-engine behind the site was driven by technology that I created to display banner ads, text links and to deliver targeted emails for the site. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money? By Frank Addante [Startup 2.0]

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