Richard Frederick is an experienced C level executive and serial entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience. He spent the last fifteen years of his career building and growing early stage companies. He has served as a mentor and coach to over 100 companies in the past 5 years. In 2001 he co-founded Autotask, one of the nation’s first pure play Software-as-a-Service companies. He played a major role in raising over $14mm for Autotask from Angel and Seed investors as well as A and B Round Venture Funds. In 2008 he co-founded WhatEveryBabyNeeds.com, an Internet based retail and social networking site providing Organic products and content to new moms and infants from birth to age 4. The founders bootstrapped the initial funding and now rely on revenue to fuel the growth. In 2009 he founded The Best and The Brightest.biz, a virtual business incubator designed to create and accelerate the growth of early stage companies. This activity was self-funded and is pre-revenue.
