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

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I think this splits up critical resources and builds separate cultures in two locations. 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. If they can’t, I doubt it will become a big, important technical company.