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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. ” F**k.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Most people totally advise against stealth. I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” ” My friend Ian Sigelow wrote about this last week and advised people not to take on this kind of job. Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Yesterday I wrote a blog posting on founder vesting (see here ).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit.

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