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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit By Frank Addante "Inventing things is a two-stage process. Stage one: Everyone says its impossible.

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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

Patent Lawsuit 6. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO. raising capital, underwriters backing out, extreme criticism, patent lawsuit from our competitor, etc.) If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course).

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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

of the product, file patents, hire a small sales team and launch a marketing program to take StrongMail to market. So, we decided to move the company to Silicon Valley (with a little encouragement from Sequoia, of course). Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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