Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I think it looks something like the graph below. We enjoy our jobs.

Entrepreneur 384

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. Right after that, I established connections with lots of artists--who were customer and friends--and started publishing books for them. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I think it looks something like the graph below. We enjoy our jobs.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Rich Customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition. A huge market with customers yearning for a product developed by great engineers requires very little firepower.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, Social Networking in Web 2.0:

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. Where's Jack Bauer? Why do I need it now?"

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Customers validate businesses. Often times, that time investment could have been better spent talking to customers or acquiring users. Rather than spending time trying to persuade a VC, wouldnt it be easier to simply say "just ask our customers"? Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Unfortunately, they wordsmith themselves so far away from describing what it actually is that they sell, that their customers or users need a jargon-decoder ring to understand what they do. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: When working with customers or potential partners, I spend most of the meeting time asking customers questions about their business, their goals, their insight into technology, the market, etc. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Of all of my companies, communication was probably the strongest at L90, even though the engineering and design team were completely separated from sales, marketing, business development and customer service. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: I think our team at L90 was one of the most efficient and customer-focused development teams ever to be assembled. adMonitor delivered over 8 Billion advertisements per month for over 3,000 customers with 99.9% Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Email is ubiquitous, email is ridden with spam, 25% of legitimate email goes undelivered (e-statements, e-commerce transactions, customer service emails, legitimate marketing e-mail), email usage is growing 30%+ per year and the world has been going paperless. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: On the contrary, enterprise software needs to be fully tested before a release because it typically affects a customers business process. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer? A dot.com is centrally hosted and can be changed anytime.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements. Where's Jack Bauer? We just started developing.

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Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: We had a few wooden desks and a desktop computer that served as my personal workstation, our web server and our ad server. By that time, we had 3,000+ customers, delivered 8 billion ads a month and reached 65% of the Internet. Where's Jack Bauer? All that powered by positivity. But be careful.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: As a result, we ended up doing a lot of one-off custom work for clients and never really gained traction in any particular area. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer? So, what we became best at was changing our business plan.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. In trying to hide it from the 5-10 would-be competitors youre also hiding it from thousands or millions of users and customers. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. Take care of the customer: Good ‘ole fashion customer service works. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer? Contact the Webmaster.&#

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: I have found that if an idea is incredibly complex, it inherently requires more time to develop and is harder to explain to customers, users, partners, employees, etc. And if customers, users, partners and employees have a hard time understanding or explaining the idea, then it will eventually fail.

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Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: But, if I were a publisher or a major network using anything from GoogleClick, Id want to find another supplier of cash registers and coffee machines before someone drives up my rental fee or takes my cash register away (with my customer list and cash still in the drawer). Where's Jack Bauer?

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: We accomplished great things – we signed Intel as a customer and partner, developed a very strong product and generated a fair amount of awareness. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: I met with my old team from L90, the team that built adMonitor (the advertising platform that delivered billions of ads per month for over 3,000 blue-chip customers, where we had a successful $112 million IPO and then DoubleClick acquired it). Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: – Premium Online Advertising Company Age: 21 - 25 Time Period: 1997 - 2001 My Role: Chief Technology Officer, Technology Founder and Chairman, Advisory Board High Point: $500 million market cap; 3,000+ customers; 8 billion transactions per month; 65% Internet reach Warning, this will be a long posting.

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