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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. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. I was a serial entrepreneur.

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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

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The two main programmers also graduated in May of 2010 from Harvey Mudd College, and the fourth person on our team recently graduated from UCSD law school. Had you thought you'd be an entrepreneur when you were in college? Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates. I graduated in May of 2010.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? The software is very solid, there have been no issues or downtime, and we're still actually operating out of the UCSD campus, at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. Can you talk about your deal with Thomson and who your typical customers would be?

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. These are the skills I look for in entrepreneurs and leaders. It is the very fabric of what I believe forms the entrepreneur DNA. They fund people with no customers. We need to sign up a few more customers and prove we can make money.&#.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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