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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

However, these days, the cost benefits are quickly declining as prices in India continue to rise and productivity decreases due to factors such as declining loyalty and retraining. This is probably due to their extreme focus on education and the lure and competition of their quickly growing tech economy.

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

Frank Addante

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. no complex contracts or pricing schemes) or adopt (i.e. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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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

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. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course). What the hell did I know?