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		<title>“Make meaning not movement”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a discussion about entrepreneurship yesterday with a friend and I mentioned that I can see one of entrepreneurs at one of the startups I&#8217;m consulting for really starting to get anxious about money.  I mentioned that I could see their anxiety manifesting itself in pushing for more&#8230;more time, more phone calls, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no regrets about going with my gut.</title>
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So I was watching the Techcrunch 50 tonight live on ustream while waiting for Julie to get off the phone before watching Mad Men, and just as I was about to switch it off, I saw a name I recognized.  The upcoming presenter was a company called Yext, a company I knew.  My jaw hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tinker don’t perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve spoken to several entrepreneurs this week as well as spent some time thinking about my past endeavors, and one thought keeps popping in my head: &#8220;tinker, don&#8217;t perfect.&#8221;   When I look back on some things that I&#8217;ve worked on, some of them things I REALLY was  passionate about (have some thoughts about passion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lessons in failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed Fred Wilson&#8217;s post this morning on failure (inspired by Obama&#8217;s speech to students a few days ago).  He wrote this, quoting from Obama:
you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time

He goes on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connect the dots looking back…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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I was listening to a Venture Voice with&#160; Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com this morning, and I had a thought about connecting the dots.&#160; When asked how or why he started meetup.com, he talked about being in NYC in 9/11 and the need for in person interactions inspired him, but the thing that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building for the long term</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m a big Zappos.com fan.  I think every pair of shoes I currently own came via Zappos.com.  Their selection and service are amazing, and they make the shoe buying experience very simple.  But the thing I really love about Zappos (which I know has been discussed to death on the internet), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times article on unemployment leading to entrepreneurship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this article in yesterday&#8217;s times about people who have become entrepreneurs after losing their jobs in the most recent recession.  I guess this is really unsurprising, and there have been numerous articles about this of late, but it&#8217;s always nice to see.  It seems with each new downturn, there is a significant upturn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bezos on Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Enjoyed this comment from founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos on the role of passion in starting a business&#8230;
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. If you&#8217;re really interested in software and computer science, you should focus on that. But if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned an Entrepreneurial Endeavor that didn’t work out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Well it&#8217;s official, or at least it feels that way.  I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to ever sell the GJG directly to users profitably.  It doesn&#8217;t mean that GJG is a flawed concept, it just means that Chris and I are unable to sell it effectively with our approach.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inputs of Entrepreneurship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve been thinking and wondering a lot lately about what needs to come together to create a working company.  I&#8217;m not going to touch the issue of &#8220;successful,&#8221; company because that&#8217;s really impossible to quantify (at least for me), so instead I&#8217;m just going to look at what I think is needed to [...]]]></description>
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