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Ed specializes in helping entrepreneurs with business planning launch, non-equity crowdfunding, marketing, sales and service delivery. Ed has 28+ years experience in communications industry working for service providers and management consulting firms. He helped build the largest independent telecom consultancy from start in 1991 to IPO in 1999, through retrenchment in 2006. He launched his own consultancy and operated it profitably in 2006-2008. He has worked with venture capitalists in the USA and service providers and companies that support service providers in the US, Canada, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. His experience includes sales, sales operations, software product marketing, information technology management, program/project management, process re-engineering and operations. He is also experienced with budgeting, cost management and recruiting and staffing with both internal and contractor personnel. Ed currently operates a photography business that focuses on headshots, corporate event and family photography.