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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

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Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “, has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

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Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. Instead spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure the next big thing to town in the hope they will turn Tampa into the next tech center. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said.

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Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark.