The Internet is Written in Pen not Pencil

Your reputation is one of the most valuable things that an Entrepreneur has.  It is important that entrepreneurs always be aware of how decision will affect their reputation.  Blogs that people write, comments on facebook, comments of discussion boards, twitter posts.  These can all come back to bite you in the butt.  Before the internet if your said something stupid the damage was minimal.  Probably only a few people would hear it and those people would probably wouldn’t know really be able to hurt you with the information.  Now, however, when people are applying for jobs or loans companies will perform searches on individuals and see what they can find.  People have been turned down for loans or not hired because of the information that was found on the internet.  The opposite can also be true companies can be impressed when they search for someone and only find good things about them.  It is important for Entrepreneurs to constantly be thinking about the information that they are putting on the internet about themselves.  Things on the internet never go away.  They are stored deep in cyber space and it can be found be whoever knows the right words to search.