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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Whether it is launching a website, developing a minimum viable product, making strategic acquisitions or building out your sales team the founder must have a firm understanding of what it is they want to accomplish, the value it will create and how long the milestone will take to accomplish. Can you afford the delay?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. They will slow down the development cycle and youll get less features, less often, but the product will be of higher quality. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? Sure, theres a wave of new technology solutions that have come into the market that are competitive with DoubleClick, but, they are unproven.

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

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Our “keep it simple&# strategy enabled us to move faster than our competition, and more importantly, enabled our customers to move faster than their competition. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . 10 ways to profit off of Twitter participation without a book deal, sponsorship or selling your star. Ditch the Book: Running a Business YOUR Way.

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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

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. In Silicon Valley, people are much more competitive, have more focus/experience in software backgrounds and often focus more attention on the methods first, then the results. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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