My best advice is if you are being presented with a non-compete, have someone look at it.

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Instead, we usually compete with a back-office systems that someone is persuading the front office they should use.

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Pistorius had shown that someone with bilateral amputations could not only be a great athlete, but could compete with able bodied athletes.

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Sadly, the investors did not understand what made the company what it was, and chose to bring in someone with the misguided notion that where he came from had been better, so now he would compete directly with his old company, by trying to turn the culture of this one into that one.

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