InfoChachkie
MARCH 3, 2011
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. Not surprisingly, our success rate was abysmal.
Frank Addante
JANUARY 30, 2007
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.
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Frank Addante
AUGUST 14, 2006
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.
Frank Addante
MAY 8, 2006
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. though, at the time, companies that we would sell to did not have an “online advertising&# budget… creating budget = not good) Starting Point was one of the first sites on the Internet to offer targeted, track-able advertising. Zondigo, Inc.
Frank Addante
MAY 3, 2006
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I dropped out of college, and eventually, we grew the site to be the 7th most popular website on the Internet (Microsoft was #8 at the time). Eventually, the site was acquired by CMGI/YesMail.com and later sold to another public company named TechLabs.
Frank Addante
OCTOBER 19, 2006
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. This ultimately lead to Starting Point being the 7th most popular site on the Internet with zero outside venture investment and a tiny staff.
Frank Addante
MARCH 26, 2007
Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 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. Be scrappy.
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