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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Subsidize their education and then send them home. Crazy, huh?

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Interview: Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com

InfoChachkie

8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child.

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Interview: Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com

InfoChachkie

8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. 7) The book Summerhill School greatly impacted you as a child.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. . Unger, John T. Unger, LLC.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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