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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

As Ben Adams writes in his article detailing the achievement , that is 23 times better than prior to the start of optimization work within the framework! We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing. If you're not watching, you would have also missed how much emphasis the ASP.NET team is putting on performance.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Why Titles Matter a Lot if You’re a Blogger

Both Sides of the Table

His article is well worth reading anyways. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. I should know. Titles are an enticement to read a post.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Who cares if they know what you’re delivering today – that’s all about execution. In a startup this is a mistake.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past couple of years I’ve written down some of my thoughts and it’s started to add up enough that I’ve now created a new tab on this blog with PR related articles on the topic. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. ” Funding IS the story. Funding is news.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. Whether we like to admit it or not, PR drives behavior with customers, investors, employees and competition. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

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