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How ReachLocal Wants To Own The Consumer Transaction

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ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com) was born in the age of Internet search marketing, and helped define Internet marketing from local service providers--letting people know about your local business via the Internet. You go to a review site and the search engines to find local vendors, where they are dozens.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

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Both Zorik and Michael very successfully took ReachLocal from just a small startup to a large, public company. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year. If they are supposed to arrive in a two hour time window, we allow you to track that tech as they go from house to house.

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Lynda.com Inks Massive, $103M Funding Round

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Lynda.com is unique in that it started out as a bootstrapped business operated out of the personal website (Lynda.com) of co-founder Lynda Weinman, in the not-so-technology hotbed town of Ojai. The business saw a dramatic growth when--due to the downturn of the dot com crash--the company started to post its video online.

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