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Now back to writing about startups that might matter.
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Great post David. Its as interesting to entrepreneurs to read about how others “failed” ( there have been much larger flame-outs) as it is about how they have succeeded.
Cool insight. It is hard to pull the chord but easier with age
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Good stuff. I am planning to get my first venture running and this post contains the lesson I need to learn. Thanks for sharing
Hey, would you be willing to share your technology…a couple of buddies from college and I are starting to develop a similar product. please let me know.
I forgot to add my email: thomasferede@yahoo.com
David, what was iContact's business (revenue) model and do you think it would work today?
Do you believe that you were too focused on the US market, when non-US mobile (wireless) markets are pretty open from a distribution perspective?
It was originally envisioned as a stand alone network which would then be white labeled to social networks (myspace, etc). this was before the myspace acquisition and before facebook was popular, etc.
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