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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

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As CEO of spin-off RME in Tampa, Florida, Tom headed a company that created the most effective lead-generation program in the financial services industry. Professionalisms customer development customer relationship management customer service managing customers Tom Panaggio'

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

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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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.