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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. And here were over a million users, with no apparent value to the web designers, except as a community of friends with similar interests. But they occur often enough to watch for and take advantage of if ready to make the run for a liquidity event.

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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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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. Upcoming Events. Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview.

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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

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Good people and evil people.

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

Frank Addante

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. 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. Startup 2.0:

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