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	<title type="text">Dan Wolchonok</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Tech Geek / MBA Student at Yale</subtitle>

	<updated>2013-01-07T15:22:53Z</updated>

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			<name>Dan</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Fake It Until You Become It]]></title>
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		<updated>2013-01-07T15:22:53Z</updated>
		<published>2013-01-07T15:19:27Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Entrepreneurship" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me this video, and I think it contains a very powerful message. In the past couple of years I have applied to business school, started my own company, and have networked in the Boston startup community. In each of these endeavors, it has become obvious to me that you must go ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2013/01/fake-it-until-you-become-it/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How I met top mentors at the Boston unConference]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-11-21T15:41:10Z</updated>
		<published>2012-11-21T15:41:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Entrepreneurship" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I attended the Boston unConference for the first time last week at the Hynes Convention Center.  I had heard great things from friends about how it was different from other conferences, but was curious to see it for myself.  I can&#8217;t stress this enough: the level of accessibility was unlike any other event I&#8217;ve been to.  I ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2012/11/how-i-met-top-mentors-at-the-boston-unconference/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Amazing Lessons in Leadership]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-11-03T17:11:42Z</updated>
		<published>2012-11-03T04:49:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Yale" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Today was an incredible day at Yale SOM.  One of the classes I&#8217;m taking is Managing Global Catastrophes, taught by Jeffrey Garten.  We&#8217;re studying lessons of leadership from extremely difficult crises like The Asian Tsunami, AIDS, the famine in Somalia, SARS, 9/11, and Fukushima (to name a few). Today we had the pleasure of meeting with: ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2012/11/amazon-lessons-in-leadership/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[When are you at your best?]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-11-03T08:10:15Z</updated>
		<published>2012-06-15T18:53:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Yale" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Even before I had started at business school, I received an email outlining an assignment that was to be completed in the first weeks of school.  It involved a lot of coordination and work to complete, yet helped me learn about when I perform at my best.  The course was Careers, taught by Amy Wrzesniewski, which ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2012/06/when-are-you-at-your-best/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sliding out of control]]></title>
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		<updated>2011-10-06T18:10:14Z</updated>
		<published>2011-10-06T18:08:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Yale" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This post was originally written for the SOM community blog, located here. When I first arrived on campus, I had a lot of items on my to-do list: refine my resume, network with students at SOM and in the larger Yale community, and try the best pizza slices from around New Haven. One thing I ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/10/sliding-out-of-control/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Goodbye Microsoft.  Hello Yale.]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-11-03T08:09:54Z</updated>
		<published>2011-08-22T01:41:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Yale" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I joined FAST in September of 2008, excited about the opportunity to work at Microsoft.  Three years later, I have learned an incredible amount about search engines, engineering driven cultures, and what it&#8217;s like to work at a true technology company.  I am grateful to my wonderful colleagues for teaching me so much. Leaving Microsoft ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/08/goodbye-microsoft-hello-yale/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[TechStars NYC on This Week in Venture Capital]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-07-06T22:10:34Z</updated>
		<published>2011-05-11T01:30:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Entrepreneurship" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I first became aware of TechStars a couple of years ago and was totally inspired by their documentary videos. If you haven&#8217;t heard of TechStars, watch Mark Suster in the below interview. In one sentence, TechStars helps entrepreneurs take their idea and build a real business out of it by giving them mentoring, office space, ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/05/techstars-nyc-on-this-week-in-venture-capital/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Stealth Mode &#8211; Tell Others about your startup now]]></title>
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		<updated>2011-05-10T23:04:22Z</updated>
		<published>2011-05-10T23:01:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Entrepreneurship" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I love this piece of advice about being in stealth mode: Share your idea with others to get feedback instead of protecting it like a delicate flower. If you’re really fearful someone’s going to come along and steal your idea, you’re operating under a fall sense of security; based on my experience, it seems like ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/05/stealth-mode-tell-others-about-your-startup-now/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Joel Spolsky on This week in Venture Capital]]></title>
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		<updated>2011-05-06T02:47:12Z</updated>
		<published>2011-05-04T14:21:05Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Entrepreneurship" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wrote this recap of Mark Suster&#8217;s podcast from this week in venture capital episode #47. You can watch the full episode here.  As a very early StackOverflow user (number 168!) it was great to see two people I follow and admire on the same podcast. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/05/joel-spolsky-on-this-week-in-venture-capital/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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			<name>Dan</name>
						<uri>http://dwolchon.com/blog/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Search Button is Dead]]></title>
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		<updated>2011-05-11T12:54:43Z</updated>
		<published>2011-03-20T19:07:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://dwolchon.com/blog" term="Product Design" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The search button is dead.  You shouldn&#8217;t even have one. You need a search box &#8211; but you don&#8217;t need a button for someone to click on.  This might seem like a inconsequential UI change, but it&#8217;s an important mindset to integrate into your site design.  It&#8217;s called query completion &#8211; giving users an indication of what ...<a class="post-readmore" href="http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/03/the-search-button-is-dead/">read more</a>]]></summary>
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