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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team

Frank Addante

Build a SWAT team By Frank Addante (Part 4 of a 5 part series: " So, you need to develop a product? ") Any entrepreneur, CEO or CTO should always have a development SWAT team on hand. The SWAT team helped us kick-start the project and get it to market in less time that it would have taken us to interview and hire a small team.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Ive hired some of my best people straight out of college, taxi cab drivers and have even stolen coffee makers from Starbucks. I asked the President and COO of Ticketmaster (formerly CTO) how he is able to attract and keep such a Scrappy, motivated team at such a large company. They will be one of your most valuable assets.

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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

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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