Welcome to FounderBlog!

By Frank Addante

The purpose of this blog is to share experiences, advice and philosophies with other entrepreneurs, my team, the companies I advise and the curious.

I dropped out of college at 19. I am now 29 years old and on my 5th startup company. I have never had a resume and I have never "applied" for a job. At this point in my life, entrepreneurship is survival for me – besides, who would hire me without a resume?

If you want to learn about being scrappy, moving fast and keeping it simple... this blog might be interesting to you. If you are looking for information on planning, process and procedure - then you are definitely in the wrong place: Go here instead.

I plan to give it to you ugly: good ugly and bad ugly. I will speak what's on my mind, when it's on my mind (though, I must warn you I have A.D.D., so I hope that you can follow along). I will try to keep it raw and uncensored, provided that it does not hurt or offend anyone or interfere with the growth of my company.

Startups are like roller coasters, so expect the content of this blog to have similar characteristics. I expect there will be topics of excitement, disappointment, anger, boldness, foolishness, fear, confusion, insecurity and pride...

I plan to be wrong... a lot... I believe making mistakes is key to quickly finding the right answer: "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." -- Thomas Watson, Sr.

Most of my thoughts are based from one concrete test: "Is this the quickest, simplest way to move forward?"

My best advice to anyone reading this blog, is that no matter what I may say (or anyone else for that matter), always go with your gut. (period!)

Here goes...
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My postings will start with a quick synopsis on each of my first five startups. Then I will move on to addressing specific entrepreneurial lessons learned, experiences, rants, raves and random topics of interest.
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Next on deck: Startup 1.0… “The Bug Bite -- The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)”