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To Die For

Entrepreneur and Charlestown resident Jeff Taylor, 47, the whiz behind Monster.com and Eons.com, a social networking site for boomers, is hoping to bring the stodgy newspaper obituary back to life.

(Photograph by Webb Chappell)
By Geoff Edgers
July 27, 2008

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You recently launched your latest venture, Tributes.com, a site that allows individuals to post obituaries online. It's pretty depressing, don't you think? I mean, why base a whole business around dead people? (Full article: 468 words)

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