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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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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Most people totally advise against stealth. I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. Where Stealth is Bad – I do meet entrepreneurs who clearly fall on the other side of spectrum and are totally closed. Be careful about this advice.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. ” I highly recommend reading it. Profitability. Valuation.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?

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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.” For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.”

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. When I hear entrepreneurs say that they’re kicking around ideas with friends I ask, “have you legally registered a company?&#

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