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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Good entrepreneurs are wrong often.

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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

Venture Capital Funding 7. Prior to raising $16M+ in funding from top-tier venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital and Evercore Ventures, StrongMail was self-funded and cash-flow positive. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. Relaxing 2. Incubation 3.

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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

In fact, we probably had hundreds of competitors including seven that were either very well funded with significant venture capital or publicly held (e.g. Chicago, New York, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.) aggressive) are very different than people from Los Angeles (i.e. New Yorkers (i.e.