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This story is about excess. About building an empire and having to leave it. This story is about Vernon W. Hill II who aggressively founded the Commerce Bank over 34 years ago, and had to leave in order for it to take shape due to cease-and-desist orders with federal banking regulators.
Vernon upped the anti in […]

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Domain names are like real estate, when that property is gone, its gone until someone chooses to put it back on to the market.
Over time real estate prices increase, such is the case in the premium domain name market place. It has become evident now more than ever that domain names are the place to […]

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Wondering how employees of the top Web 2.0 companies work? Office Snapshots has started bringing us inside photos of such top online businesses as Craigslist, Digg, Mahalo, Meebo, Pixar and Twitter.
The Office Snapshots website started up in late July, and gives us a special look into the office lives of some of the most visited […]

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If you find that you tend to waste quite a bit of time during your work day catching up on the latest celebrity gossip, or randomly surfing the internet, maybe corporate life just isn’t for you.
There is a growing percentage of American’s that have frequently felt bored and underpaid at their place of employment, causing […]

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A new feature at StartupBackpack is the ‘Side Pocket’. These pockets get emptied every once and a while and will provide some interesting tidbits of information that can be found online, and hopefully can help out in your day to day thinking.

Traditional media outlets are starting to hit the fan. The latest, Red Herring.
Ad Downturn […]

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