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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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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. I often advise these CEOs to make the tough choices early in the company’s history – either move up North or build your tech team in LA.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” Valuation.

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