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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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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

socalTECH

LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors. READ MORE>>.

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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. The tool it turns out had been posted on the company’s website and downloaded by over a million gamers. Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

. · Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The founders previously ran another company together.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. If you're like many people, you're having more and more public conversations, but there is no tool out there similar to Gmail which a lot of people use to organize their whole life. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that. READ MORE>>.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on how to get access to VCs and angels where I outlined why lawyers are such an important tool for VC introductions. When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. He represented us at one firm I invested in and did a great job. 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

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ReaXions helped companies create websites and then provided them with the tools to promote their sites and monetize the traffic (marketing software).

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