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		<title>KivaAlerts 1.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just unveiled the most updated version of KivaAlerts.com, our suite of applications built on the Kiva API aimed at building a rapid and larger distribution channel of new loan requests that appear on Kiva.org, and for enabling Kiva.org users to introduce Kiva to their friends and family, with almost no effort. Take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focused Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 07:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign focused on simplicity, consistency and relevance during their nearly two-year march to the White House. They understood the glut of noise their message needed to cut through to be received, and their relentless focus on crafting a sticky message made it simple for voters to hear, believe and share with others. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Twitter Tips For Startup Founders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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I got tired of remembering all the different things one must do to build followers on twitter, tweet interesting stuff that spreads with RTs to build your twitter account into a solid distribution channel for correctly marketing your startup&#8217;s updates. More importantly, I like to share everything I know with the startups that we incubate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Google Won’t Be A Victim Of Twitter &amp; Why John’s Theory May Be Flawed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday night, I stumbled across John Borthwick&#8217;s post titled Creative Destruction&#8230;Google Slayed By The Notificator? via Fred Wilson&#8217;s blog. I must say I totally enjoyed it, and John did a wonderful job of articulating the concept of creative destruction with some great examples.

&#8230;.I now see search as fragmenting and Twitter search doing to Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayback Machine &amp; What You Can Learn From It For Your Site / Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.betterlabs.net/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we work with super early stage startup founders, one of the things that comes up repeatedly is how can we launch the site with a killer UI/UX. It is obvious that you&#8217;d want a UX of killer product like Facebook for your site / product but I always push back and explain that UX [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crate &amp; Barrel Story</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.betterlabs.net/the-crate-barrel-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
I revisited a 2001 story about Crate &#38; Barrel CEO Gordon Segal&#8217;s speech at the ICSC Spring Convention and found it a lot more inspiring and useful to read it all over again now. In 2001 I was in the early stages of my first startup that I had started with a few senior cofounder and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VC Model May Not Be Broken, But Needs To Evolve … Fast!</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.betterlabs.net/vc-model-may-not-be-broken-but-needs-to-evolve-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.betterlabs.net/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adeo Ressi&#8217;s HBS presentation that claimed that the VC model is broken has been discussed over and over in the last few days. Here is the slideshow of his presentation and while I agree that all his arguments are not acceptable, there is definitely merit to the question he raises about the current VC model. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insight On How Users Use iPhone Applications</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Betterlabs/~3/1_PBn1YbhSE/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.betterlabs.net/insight-on-how-users-use-iphone-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting research study on how and what iPhone applications are used by the iPhone owners right now. Go over the full presentation to gather some really interesting points that can directly help with your iPhone application design.
How people really use the iPhone

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: development interaction)

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		<title>Jason Fried: Education As A Customer Acquisition Strategy</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Betterlabs/~3/nu2OtOHpbzo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.betterlabs.net/jason-fried-education-as-a-customer-acquisition-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
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		<title>Tony Hsieh Of Zappos On Importance Of Culture</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Betterlabs/~3/CX31RdKz7hg/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.betterlabs.net/tony-hsieh-of-zappos-on-importance-of-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vaibhav Domkundwar</dc:creator>
		
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