By Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Staff
As an entrepreneur, there are certain phone calls you never forget. Perhaps nothing beats the one that your funding hit the bank account. Another I vividly remember came in February 2010. “Richard Edelman here,” the voice on the phone said. “Is Lew there?” I nearly fell off my $29 hard-plastic swivel chair, one of four I bought for each team member (a frugal act still viewed as cruel and unusual punishment). “I want to blog about Ad/Slant,” Richard said. True/Slant, my startup, was a different kind of news network. Ad/Slant was part of our revenue model. Out of the blue, I had the CEO of one of the largest public relations companies in the world interested in us. …read more
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