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Famous Birthdays Focuses On Finding Celebrity Facts

socalTECH

The service says it has more than 30,000 profiles of famous people, with quick facts about them. The startup--the brainchild of Evan Britton--has been ramping up its efforts recently, having just launched a brand new responsive web design which optimizes the site for mobile phones and tablets, in addition to desktop web browsers.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Selz, run by a team of around 50 in Sydney, Australia, bills itself as a one-stop-shop for small businesses to start selling products and services online. As we mentioned above, Amazon used to operate a similar service to Selz with its Webstore platform. Service Sales. Find out more – Best Ecommerce Website Builders 2021.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. A quick glimpse at TechCrunch’s “Deadpool” is testament to the enormous risks any entrepreneurs must face.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. A quick glimpse at TechCrunch’s “Deadpool” is testament to the enormous risks any entrepreneurs must face.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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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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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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