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		<title>Culture and Core Values (via OrganizedWisdom)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really liked this post from Unity over at the OrganizedWisdom Blog on their company values and culture. 
I&#8217;ve been fortunate to spend some time with the guys at OrganizedWisdom and I know that they truly mean every word posted.  I&#8217;ve learned more and more that the key to a successful startup is a solid [...]]]></description>
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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>Note to future self (and others): I will make lots of mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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I had one of my favorite mixergy interviews with Zaadz founder, Brian Johnson on in the background today while doing some work.  Brian is my kind of entrepreneur, a guy who has seemed to have found the amazing intersection of personal meaning and business.   There&#8217;s a ton of great stuff in this interview, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no regrets about going with my gut.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Albert Einstein quote -via Kareem Mayan’s Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal [...]]]></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>Hey Multitasker, you’re lousy at everything..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This NY Times article somehow snuck by me last week, but I went back and dug it up after someone recommended it to me (why?).  Basically it discusses unsurprising findings of a Stanford University study on multitaskers: people who try to do 4 things at once are usually mediocre or bad at all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The voice that eats my dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Ok so the title is a little dramatic, but it was the first thing that came to mind.
I just got out of a good meeting with a friend where I realized that in probably 10 years of playing with business ideas, the most exciting ideas to me all have a common theme, obviously [...]]]></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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