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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents.

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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. of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market.

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