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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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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

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No, Every person on my team was A-class. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.