Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. That was a very successful exit for everyone involved.

Orange County 245

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

Tips 88

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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