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Demand Media Launches Long Form Article Effort

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. People read magazines for a reason and it’s a combination of focused content and beautiful images. He’s a master.

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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

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They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

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You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people. I was interviewed recently by Inc Magazine and they have been publishing snippets of this interview online. 2) Appendix (1) — A list of Abraham Lincoln’s failures. (2) — My

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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I have run newspapers, magazines, and websites and I have written for them all. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. I was a journalist for about 20 years. It’s growing.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

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They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. In both cases the biopics portray suffering souls who find extreme and sudden success that casts them into the public eye in a way that they weren’t prepared for. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Of course that’s true.

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When Will Dinner Cook Itself? | Moment The Smart Home Goes Mainstream

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Price point is undoubtedly a factor (the Samsung fridge goes for $3,600), and there just isn’t much demand for app-enabled kitchens. “ RFID technology will eventually replace the barcode, therefore any product that has a barcode today will have an RFID tag in the future,” said Itzkovitch to UX Magazine.

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