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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

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. However Gmail is only private email conversations. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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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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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. 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. Have a Tip, Pitch or Guest Column? Guest Column.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. Your memory – they never worked very hard and didn’t want to commit. In every firm there are A, B and C players.

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

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. 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.

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