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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. they released a new 2.0 Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. It’s also the wrong answer.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

In todays highly competitive job marketplace, it is becoming increasingly more difficult. Silicon Valley has a lot of engineers with a lot of experience, but also lot of competition, which makes it the most expensive place to hire engineers and loyalty can be a challenge. My solution: cast a wider net.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. Yes, I did say competition.

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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

because they are so focused on being better than their competition. For me, this test also serves as a strategic guideline for almost everything I do: - business plans - investor pitches - sales pitches - marketing messaging - product management - press/media calls - etc. Most companies can answer #2 (Why do I need yours?)

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Whether it be product development, marketing, sales, negotiating or raising capital, I find myself trying harder to not get bogged down with unnecessary details. Our “keep it simple&# strategy enabled us to move faster than our competition, and more importantly, enabled our customers to move faster than their competition.

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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

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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