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Another personal story: Timing is everything in a sale.

Berkonomics

The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information. The surprise I could not ignore.

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Timing is everything in a sale of a business.

Berkonomics

The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. And here were over a million users, with no apparent value to the web designers, except as a community of friends with similar interests.

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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

socalTECH

However Gmail is only private email conversations. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.