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At the risk of alienating all of my remaining friends in the public relations industry, I thought I might share some of my running commentary during today’s For Immediate Release broadcast on Blog Talk Radio. The subject was startup PR and the jumping off point was Jason Calacanis’ blog post from a few months ago in which he argued essentially that the startup CEO should head PR, not an outside agency.
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