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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. They''re actually initial consultations, ranging from divorce to DUI. You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. But, how do you start?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Beautiful slides by top-tier consultants have hoodwinked large companies for years and I can see why.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review. How did you manage the growth you have, without outside funding?

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

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Kaiser joined forces with Bruce Schwartz (Founder and CTO) to write an entirely new code language they called Interactive Television Markup Language (ITVML). This new technology also gives the producers complete control over the experiences they are creating. Coincident.TV Currently, Coincident.TV

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

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2: “7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race&# We were not the first to build an ad-serving technology platform. In fact, we probably had hundreds of competitors including seven that were either very well funded with significant venture capital or publicly held (e.g. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course).

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. But I don’t think so.