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Apply Hospitality-Driven Thinking to Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

As outlined in Beware the Consultant , be wary when selecting a professional services firm. Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. Even so, the majority of firms focus on servicing well-established BDC’s. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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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 provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. So, I put him in charge of our data centers and technical operations.

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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.) Bootstrap 2. 7th Horse in a 7 Horse Race 3.