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To avoid that pitfall, Tangney recommends focusing not only on whatever the child did that was wrong, but how the child can make amends: apologizing and cleaning up after a spill, for instance.

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"If he had hired a group of professionals before this hit the news, someone would have sat him down and gotten at all the information and the truth," Mr. Tangney said.

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Take Jeff Tangney , an entrepreneur who co-founded Epocrates Inc., a maker of mobile medical software, in 1999.

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June Tangney, a psychologist at George Mason University who has studied guilt in both children and adults, had some advice for him.

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This year, Mr. Tangney began raising money for a new company, Doximity Inc., a San Mateo-based maker of a networking tool for medical professionals.

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While he brought in more money out of the gate this time—$10.8 million—Mr. Tangney had a working product available for three months and had signed up 10,000 doctors to use the app.

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The time to seek outside help from communications professionals was long before Monday, said Scott Tangney, executive vice president of Makovsky & Co., a public-relations and crisis- management firm in New York.

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"If he had hired a group of professionals before this hit the news, someone would have sat him down and gotten at all the information and the truth," Mr. Tangney said.

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"We had some slides and maybe a little bit of a demo," said Mr. Tangney, who was finishing up his M.B.A. at Stanford University at the time.

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Chief Executive Jeff Tangney said Doximity has grown more quickly over the past several months since it added some game-like features.

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