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JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. they released a new 2.0 We get it!

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JULY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind Quub? The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents. What's the business model behind this? George Ruan: We've got a very solid revenue model.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Ive noticed that a lot of people are afraid of getting their ideas out into the public. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.),

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Convincing others to believe in your idea is hard. Ive found that a lot of people are interested in hearing about new ideas. they listen, they smile and nod, they say nice things and tell you its a great idea.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Patent Lawsuit 6. To be honest, I don’t know where my response came from because the truth was that I was very intimidated and had no idea how we would beat them. “Patent Lawsuit&# We were on the IPO track and our #1 competitor (DoubleClick) filed a bogus patent-infringement lawsuit right before our IPO.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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