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	<title>startup - my passion for startup and my experience in Poland vs USA</title>
	
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	<description>By Arek Skuza</description>
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		<title>Why Polish VC will not build a global exitu quickly, or otherwise – who has the best chance to build it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2011 I started the first talks with investors who, for various reasons, were interested in iTraff Technology (in Poland and abroad). I had 32 meetings, 21 Skype, I mentioned a lot of emails, I made a valuation of the company, prepared to negotiate and so on and so forth (in the margin: nothing much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Smith and myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that every startup man can learn something from Smith &#8211; last week I had the pleasure to become an expert in Adam Smith Center. It is an interesting place, full of free market thinking on the border of disruptive thinking, so close to startups. Together with Andrzej Sadowski, having a cake and coffee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear, win and entrepreneurship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On these gloomy autumn days someone sent me a link with a sentence underneath “He who fears, he is a slave” – Seneca. Let me add to the above what Marek Kondrat said once: We cannot be afraid because we lose too much. Therefore to all the startup people building their companies struggling with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>great product – ceo and team isn’t able to determine what it is… by themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several silly thoughts which I think I worth sharing. a) only customers can decide if product is ok or not ok Angry Birds simplicity could be a failure and is big success. Facebook founders didn&#8217;t want it to be a company. So&#8230;. can we realy decide what is good product. It looks like not, stupid ideas can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>merchant of venice movie and startup life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was watching Merchant of Venice movie, great example of Al Pacino&#8217;s work. Cool story, cool art wrote by great man! I was astonished by the story about merchant of venice who was stubborn man with material goods orientation. He was good at what he was doing. On the other side, there was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>we do cool staff with itraff.pl/english and they make us feel we chose great direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Vienna, Warsaw, apple and San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was great time recently. Our photo recognition technology found some attention in peoples minds. I must say as being pride that we were chosen to top 10 startups during startupweek2011 in Vienna. We were showing up our photo recognition technology in San Francisco and some really cool Polish newspapers and web pages mentioned us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am flyin’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am watching crisis around us, watchin&#8217; Polish politicans fighting for their next 4 years life. I am looking at Polish flag waving. I can see so many great startups around me, so many smart people, smarter than I am, than I can even imagine. I can see investors watching pitches but admitting that not having time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restroom, cars and trains – where people buy books – SaveUp’s freeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a week I spend 30 minutes with SaveUp user. We launch Skype or Googles Hangouts, have coffee and talk. BTW if you are SaveUp user let me know, let&#8217;s talk. These conversation gave me a picture of SaveUp usage. Where, in what situations, SaveUp users buy books: - in friends&#8217; house &#8211; they see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SaveUp in a search of $$$ within a second round of investment. Big bucks will come :)!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day we were preparing for during the whole year has finally come – money collection for the next periods of operation. iTraff Technology Ltd, the producer and the owner of the image recognition technology and at the same time the owner of application SaveUp, has started its journey to acquire capital. Sounds pompous, but [...]]]></description>
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