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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Real quickly, most companies that offer credit card processing are a middle-man (most banks are middle-man). Anyhow, I replied and asked who pays who here and found that First Data pays Chad a commission for his sales. In most cases these viewings are done by potential customers who are checking on your company’s rating.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Off to the Races StrongMail is a digital messaging infrastructure software company.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. Many companies that were in the process of raising money did not. Let me start with a story.