By MATT RICHTEL
c.2010 New York Times News Service
SAN FRANCISCO – When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it.
Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: A big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up.
“I stood up from my desk and said, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ ” Campbell said. “It’s kind of hard to miss an e-mail like that, but I did.”