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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

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail was originally supposed to be the email infrastructure for the DHARMA project.

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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 ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We had lawyers everywhere; digging through files, reviewing all of our emails and mounds of paperwork. Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.) aggressive) are very different than people from Los Angeles (i.e.