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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. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. ” F**k.

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Interview with Erik Rannala, MuckerLab

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One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. Like other people that live here, I personally love Southern California, and wanted to live here. Everything they need to launch and grow their business.

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Len Short (Red)ily Discusses Google, Bono & Steve Jobs

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Despite this technical glitch, I opted to publish our discussion, given the high-quality content of his comments. Len remains an active advisor to several startups. In this regard, I asked him to share the lessons from his early days of online marketing that remain relevant to the startups he currently advises.

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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

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I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X&# or not. I advised against the SF role because it was a bigger company and his role would be pushing paper from one side of his desk to the other. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice.

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