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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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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Most people totally advise against stealth. Also be careful about VCs. But once a VC has heard your idea he can’t “un-think&# it. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. Be careful about this advice. You don’t.

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