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		<title>What to do about that first round of funding?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You are a co-founder. You and your team are committed to making it happen. Now you need money. What comes next has profound implications for your company. If you have some interested early stage investors lined up the critical question is: &#8220;How much of the company to we give up for $XX?&#8221; If these are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Allocating stock options in early-stage companies</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/allocating-stock-options-in-early-stage-companies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How much are you worth? In a startup environment, that question is never just about salary and 401(k) perks; it&#8217;s about how much of the company you deserve given your position and your performance. @TheFunded via Twitter posted this link. It provides some comps to use when you&#8217;re negotiating with your boss or trying to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>VC and founder stereotypes</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/vc-and-founder-stereotypes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’d like to take a few minutes to explore the cartoonishly pejorative stereotypes that have recently popped up on the web. The embedded slideshows below offer a comical glimpse into the worst behaviors on each side of the table. View more documents from vcobserver. View more presentations from Chris Yeh. Constructive advice for those pitching [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting to No</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/getting-to-no/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In business (and in life) people are often a obsessed with getting to “yes:” an outcome many view as unequivocally positive and helpful to their goals. I submit that the right answer to most business questions is “no” and the more quickly one can recognize which paths are strategic dead ends, the better. The trouble [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nate Lewis’s talk on energy &#8212; solar is the planet’s only hope</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/nate-lewis-on-energy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m attending day one of a packed conference at CU Boulder: the Workshop on Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity and Fuels. Nate Lewis (whose paper everyone needs to read) gave last night’s keynote address. Nate is a very clear thinker and one of those rare scientists who is able to speak to power [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Right Stuff</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-right-stuff/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX, a PayPal founder) is determination personified. His attitude and commitment embody what it takes to get a startup off the ground. In his case, “getting off the ground” is literal: SpaceX is developing the first privately-funded, liquid-fueled rocket transportation business. They recently suffered their third consecutive in-flight catastrophic failure. From [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why uniqueness is a dangerous idea &#8212; A discussion of substitutes and their impact</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/uniqueness-is-dangerous/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All too often one will hear an entrepreneur or an inventor say something like, “We don’t have any competition. What we are doing is unique.” At the level in the market where money is made, statements like this are not just wrong, they endanger capital and jobs. Let’s look at two ways smart people arrive [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Steve Jobs&#8217;s tail is longer than yours</title>
		<link>https://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/steve_jobs_tail/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rentschler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[While the press writes about other things, Apple has quietly engineered a revolution in how we buy and interact with software. This ought to sound familiar. Sub “software” for “music,” and roll back the clock to 2001: the introduction of the iPod and iTunes&#8230; The software market has just been transformed. Apple’s 2.0 software release [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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