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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Along with a team of nine developers, the six young adult authors spent two months working nights and weekends to bring Realms of Ruin to life. They said that the authors, who also worked with a team of developers, ended the project because they felt that there was more to lose than there was to gain. a fan asked.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

socalTECH

You only call them typically when you need some particular thing done, like a big contract, or some major corporate transaction. I was at LegalZoom until last year, and I was the CEO of the company for its first seven years, from 2000 to 2007. The big example is YCombinator. That's when you have to find a lawyer.

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Interview with Gus Ezcurra, Advanced Telemetry

socalTECH

Guz Ezcurra: We have developed a solution that is there for energy management and conservation. For example, the biggest load in a small business or home is the HVAC system. Gus Ezcurra: We started the company about two years ago, in August of 2007. Describe how your energy monitoring systems work, what's special about them?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

socalTECH

It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. We had known about the company, going back to when we were all at Pentadyne, and in 2007 we entered into a license from the group of people who had acquired those designs. How much of a difference in energy usage do your systems make?

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Although such agencies are relatively rare, they do exist. Meredith Publishing.

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