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Do You Need A Personal Brand?

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Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. A freelance writer, software coder or a photographer can also be considered in this category. Most likely, you don’t have an option here. Going on a date?

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If and when a good SEM solution shows up for iPhone, you may be able to use it to artificially drive your app into the Top 25, as a one-time event. Or if your lifetime value is high enough, you can just keep spending on SEM.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thanks for sharing.