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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

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Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

socalTECH

If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. Funny thing, though, is that I found our competitors running out and building features that were never used (likely because they saw it on our site). Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: And second, they needed to architect and deploy an alternative to our core ad-serving software (which was delivering billions of ads for the Internets top web sites at the time), because DoubleClick was trying to get an injunction to shut us down. Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer?

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

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Whether it be product development, marketing, sales, negotiating or raising capital, I find myself trying harder to not get bogged down with unnecessary details. People often spend too much time on the methods and lose site of the results. Where's Jack Bauer? Dont Think Too Much.

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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

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. Where's Jack Bauer? Some ideas lasted months, others lasted hours.

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