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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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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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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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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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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. I often advise these CEOs to make the tough choices early in the company’s history – either move up North or build your tech team in LA.