http://blakepatton.com/smart-money/ Blog by Blake Patton of Tech Square Ventures Fri, 09 May 2014 01:20:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://blakepatton.com/smart-money/#comment-410 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:37:51 +0000 http://blakepatton.com/?p=284#comment-410 At tonight’s ATDC Entrepreneur’s Night Dave Williams told his Blinq Media story. In his advice to entrepreneurs he urged startups to make sure their first investment was from a strategic investor or angel that would partner with them in growing the company. For Dave, that was Paul Iaffaldono who brought strategic knowledge on the advertising space from his time leading ad revenue at the Weather Channel and prior advertising experience. Paul also ‘doubled down’ on his initial investment in Blinq when the company needed it most.

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