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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>If u r startup, you should apply here.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is excellent event, organized by extraordinary, high energetic, so nice lady  Jeanette Marschner. The event is called EVM (European Venture Market) and take place in Berlin. Check here and apply. There will be hundreds of people investing million of green Euros !!!!! I must say that I was participating EVM 2011 and it gives me whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling invisible a startup blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quick post written on iPhone on a train in Tube, London. I just has a thought that in startup important is to sell something that doesn&#8217;t exist. If u going 2 build a product &#8211; buy plane tickets and go around to sell it. Don&#8217;t develop or code first!!!!!!!! Sell. But don&#8217;t sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTraff Technology – money beging part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[balderton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dought hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fund raising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTraff technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivan farnti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan made my day. I was sure what is a value for pitching, but couldn&#8217;t implement it during capital on stage conference. I came there to meet Balderton (http://www.balderton.com/). I didn&#8217;t know why, but I feel I had to. I didn&#8217;t have scheduled appointment (capital on stage only lets you to talk to people if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTraff Technology raising money jungle process – how life kicked my brain _ preword</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a huge difference in raising money for startup, between Poland (I guess all CEE region) and Western World. There is a huge difference in business culture in CEE (excluding Russia) and Western World. There is no pink world in Silicon Valley (if you are from Europe and you are not hard geek coder). What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get’em going – lawyers in fund raising process.</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StartUpPolandCEE/~3/Lt7AfpDHFPc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I get more and more experience in raising money for business (itraff.pl/english). Sometimes, listening Fun Loving Criminals while I am doing this &#8211; I realize that relationship is the most important things which is being built during whole fund raising process. People invest in business and can lost their money faster ever (not only [...]]]></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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		<comments>http://www.arekskuza.com/index.php/2011/11/fear-win-and-entrepreneurship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.arekskuza.com/index.php/2011/11/fear-win-and-entrepreneurship/</guid>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[churn rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean startup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mvp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>

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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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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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