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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media.

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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

. – Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. Relaxing 2.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. I often advise these CEOs to make the tough choices early in the company’s history – either move up North or build your tech team in LA. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev. What about offshoring?