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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Just Say What it Is

Frank Addante

Just Say What it Is By Frank Addante In todays high-tech, highly competitive world, more and more companies are describing their products or services using too many fancy, jargon words. Anytime I think of ways to describe a new business, product or service I use this statement as a foundation/test to ground my thinking.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

Of all of my companies, communication was probably the strongest at L90, even though the engineering and design team were completely separated from sales, marketing, business development and customer service. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Email is ubiquitous, email is ridden with spam, 25% of legitimate email goes undelivered (e-statements, e-commerce transactions, customer service emails, legitimate marketing e-mail), email usage is growing 30%+ per year and the world has been going paperless. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

Take care of the customer: Good ‘ole fashion customer service works. We had one (yes, only one) person answer thousands of emails a day. &# Tell Your Friends Subscribe Filed under: entrepeneurs , internet , Starting Point , startup Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Less is More; More is Difficult" Think about successful products and services such as the iPod, eBay or Google. Their strategy was to provide very minimalist, easy to use products and services. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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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. Traditionally, growing an enterprise software company is very different from a dot-com or an application service provider solution.

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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

The advertising services group was sold to AskJeeves and then the company began a liquidation process to give tens of millions of dollars in capital back to its shareholders. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit