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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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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” ” Stay lean and only raise a big round if you DO find product / market fit and which point you want to loosen the belt quickly and raise the capital to do so. .” Valuation.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. I often tell people in this scenario to focus on a VC “fixer upper.” ” My friend Ian Sigelow wrote about this last week and advised people not to take on this kind of job.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Venture Capital Funding 7. So, I put him in charge of our data centers and technical operations.

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