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Despite appearances, MongoMusic.com is doing pretty well. The start-up, which will help consumers search for and buy music on the Internet, has raised enough money to move into spacious new digs in Menlo Park next month. Right now, the company is "incubating," renting two rooms in a dreary high-rise for $3,800 a month from HQ Global, a company that leases temporary office space. There are 10 other start-ups in the building. "It's not very cost-efficient office space," says MongoMusic's 28-year-old CEO, Jeremy Hinman, "unless you pack people...
...most anticipated in history." Diablo, their first game, was among the best selling ever, moving a couple million CD-ROMs, making the game's co-creators, brothers Erich Schaefer, 34, and Max Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness of the offices, the cubicles strewn with toys or the 8-ft. red-and-black Diablo mannequin next to the receptionist--that's standard work-is-play, tech-firm vibe. Instead, what makes me stop and wonder is the feeling that I am revisiting my childhood...
...OVERHEARD:] "We did Rocky Mountains, Vail...the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park...
...arrives in San Mateo, a 20-min. drive from his Menlo Park office, for a meeting with the founders of iEscrow, a website that provides escrow services for online consumers. Chin's firm has decided to fund iEscrow, and he's here to seal the deal. "How often will we see you?" one of the CEOs asks. "We'll see you at the public offering," Chin says, implying that he doesn't plan to help out much. He's just kidding. "Look, you can tell I have a passion for this. I'm the Internet guy," he says. "My style...
...wanted to have Mission Park be both owned and operated by Roxbury tenants of Harvard," McCluskey said. "This transaction allows us to complete that loop in a very positive fashion...