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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). version of their product was.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. You would think that the importance of email would be obvious to everyone.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Build a SWAT team 3. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Build a SWAT team 3. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Build a SWAT team 3. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Build a SWAT team 3. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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