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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, The virtual worlds haven't really kept pace on how end user content has driven the growth of the web. You used to be called Areae?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 2. Under Process, Over Deliver

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Startup 2.0: By Frank Addante [Startup 2.0] The revenue-engine behind the site was driven by technology that I created to display banner ads, text links and to deliver targeted emails for the site.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ▼ March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I dropped out of college, and eventually, we grew the site to be the 7th most popular website on the Internet (Microsoft was #8 at the time). … mistake: Now finding ways to grow the site more aggressively.

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