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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. I’ll always point out when I am.). I learned the domain lesson myself. I met the CEO Brian Malewicz several times.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

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. billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Internet advertising is good. 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. Internet advertising is good. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

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. Even with my current company, StrongMail Systems ( Startup 5.0 ), an email infrastructure company, there were a number of skeptics.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

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. L90 (Startup 3.0) , my third company, was the "premium advertising network". Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

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. I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. Zondigo, Inc.

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