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Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book

This is going to be BIG.

They’re imagining coming into your office to explain an issue they’re having and trying to figure out whether you’ll be just reasonable, or even better, super creative about solutions, or so petty that they’ll immediately start looking for the next job. Well, they’d know it if you wrote a book, of course!

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Thinking of Community as Marketing When You're Not Marketing Anything

This is going to be BIG.

Sounds a lot like "community," doesn't it? Communities should be built around values, not around products, so you don't need to wait until you have a product to launch a community. That's actually an exciting opportunity because you have a year to develop a really thriving community around reducing stress.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. The book profiles markets like those for books. Now as an author you can actually publish and be able to sell only a thousand books. Even a hundred.

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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

Message me and share how it’s working for you and any creative variations you’ve developed. I also want to credit Chris Bradley’s excellent Medium article “Create A Virtual Advisory Board with ChatGPT to Guide Your Startup Business” , which provides additional perspectives on this concept.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. Intuitively most people know that LA isn’t just the entrepreneurial capital of the US but it is also the creative capital.

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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M seed led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Creatives face late payments, and often opaque industry practices, even as top talent agencies have collectively achieved a valuation of $20 billion. Contact has now raised a $1.9

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5 Reasons to Be a Part of a Business Community

Smart Hustle Magazine

Being a part of the business community plays a critical role in the success of small business owners. If you look at the thriving small business owners, you will find that most of them are outstanding community players. To be a part of a community offers you much-needed guidance to survive in a difficult time like now.