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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

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 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. ” F**k.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. A high-performance application is designed to perform well with a reasonable amount of hot data.

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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids

Tech Zulu Event

There were a few hours of just networking and playing an ice breaking game to get to know people. The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. Anthony Batt , president of Katalyst Networks and founder of BUZZmedia. Director of Business Development, WellnessFXZak is fascinated by the cross section of technology, experience design and health. 12pm: BODY. Jason Porath / @JasonPorath.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. Later he posted about his experience in Challenges of Startups.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. If not, at least find someone really technical that you trust to help act as an adviser to you.

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

Frank Addante

I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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