Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. We would quickly build a prototype of a feature, launch it on the site and instantly get feedback and make changes. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , we didnt have a QA team.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

And second, they needed to architect and deploy an alternative to our core ad-serving software (which was delivering billions of ads for the Internets top web sites at the time), because DoubleClick was trying to get an injunction to shut us down. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , an Internet search engine, I would put links up on the site to announce new ideas. Funny thing, though, is that I found our competitors running out and building features that were never used (likely because they saw it on our site). They would go to pages that said "Coming Soon."

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

I dropped out of college, and eventually, we grew the site to be the 7th most popular website on the Internet (Microsoft was #8 at the time). Eventually, the site was acquired by CMGI/YesMail.com and later sold to another public company named TechLabs. … mistake: Now finding ways to grow the site more aggressively.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

(though, at the time, companies that we would sell to did not have an “online advertising&# budget… creating budget = not good) Starting Point was one of the first sites on the Internet to offer targeted, track-able advertising. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

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