AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

With Dr. Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

In todays highly competitive job marketplace, it is becoming increasingly more difficult. Ive built development teams in Chicago, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and India. Los Angeles was a bit more difficult to find engineers; they were the most creative but more expensive than Chicago. My solution: cast a wider net.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well. “Relocation of Headquarters from LA to Silicon Valley / Culture Confusion&# Shortly after closing our Series A, we realized that it was difficult to find enterprise software people in Los Angeles. .

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition. Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.)

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40