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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Hire Entrepreneurs!

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Last week I attended the ad:Tech conference in my hometown, Chicago. Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible? Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We are a creative, Internet advertising company, so we wanted to design our office to reflect that. Zondigo, Inc. Be scrappy.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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