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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. He would have found somebody technical and inspired that individual to work for equity or deferred payment. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing. obviously don’t read this as zero analysis).

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DefCon 22 | DISOBEY!

Tech Zulu Event

Upon entering most every conference, attendees are normally offered a name-tag or some other such identifier to indicate that they have paid for admission. I’ve been advised to go as far as to take the battery out of my mobile-phone for fear that “hackers” are going to steal my information. ” Government.