Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. Yes, I did say competition.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Patent Lawsuit 6. The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. 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.

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