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	<title>Sramana Mitra on Strategy</title>
	
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		<title>A Round-up Of This Week’s Book Reviews</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thomas “Duffbert” Duff posts another good review: “Mitra structures Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction as a series of interviews with people who have started businesses and willingly (or unwillingly) went without massive funding for the first part of their...<br/>
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		<title>Deal Radar 2009: SharesPost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sramanamitra.com/?p=11088</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a problem that is not going to go away any time soon: How to make private equity liquid? SharesPost, a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of private equity and automates the sale of private company stock, is one company offering a solution. Currently operating in public beta,...<br/>
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		<title>Promising New Products At LeapFrog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MitraSramana</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[LeapFrog (NASDAQ:LF) continued to struggle with the recessionary pressures. The recently announced Q1 performance resulted in a loss while revenues nearly halved over the year. The worldwide edutainment market is still growing rapidly &#8212; according to InStat, it was $2.1 billion in 2006 and is...<br/>
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		<title>From Semiconductors to Green Power: Borrego CEO Mike Hall (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Mike Hall serves as CEO and board member for Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. Mike has been with Borrego Solar since 2002. Prior to joining the company, he worked as a product development engineer for Applied Materials in Santa Clara. He holds a MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a...<br/>
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		<title>Deal Radar 2009: Publicity Guaranteed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitra_Sramana</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sramanamitra.com/?p=11092</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Deal Radar looks at a company that seems to be attempting to change the direction of an industry that has been notoriously difficult to measure. Publicity Guaranteed allows companies seeking publicity to pay for results as they go along, rather than having to pay a retainer or for...<br/>
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		<title>Motorola Pins Its Hopes On The Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[According to a recent Gartner release, worldwide mobile phone sales declined 8.6% while smartphones grew 12.7% in the first quarter. Motorola (NYSE:MOT) continued to lose market share but managed to move up to the No.4 position, mainly because Sony Ericsson lost market share. Motorola hopes to...<br/>
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		<title>The Future Of Venture Capital: Trinity Ventures Partner Gus Tai (Part 7)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[SM: What is the future of venture capital?
GT: It will go back to its roots. It will be a smaller industry with fewer firms practicing it as a craft. There will be smaller fund sizes. I do not believe there is evidence that venture capital is an industry that scales. Should it be bigger than [...]<br/>
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		<title>Accenture Betting On Health IT, Smart Grids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MitraSramana</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Accenture (NASDAQ:ACN) turned in another subdued performance in the recently announced Q3 results. Even though their results were better than the Street’s expectations, both revenues and margins fell over the year.
Revenues for the quarter came in at $5.15 billion compared to $6.10 billion earned a...<br/>
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		<title>Deal Radar 2009: Life:WIRE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitra_Sramana</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sramanamitra.com/?p=11060</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Life:WIRE offers a cost-effective solution for users to proactively manage their disease and health conditions by giving any regular cell phone the capability to be a health management tool. This web-driven solution is gaining traction in the market through case management trials and research...<br/>
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		<title>The Future Of Venture Capital: Trinity Ventures Partner Gus Tai (Part 6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[SM: A third major area in which I would like to see leadership is in education. What do you think needs to happen for that momentum to build up?
GT: We are seeing innovation on education in two fronts. One innovation trend in education is the notion of crowdsourcing education in modules. People...<br/>
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		<title>Deal Radar 2009: Convio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Convio provides online constituent relationship management (eCRM) solutions for nonprofit organizations. Founder Vinay Bhagat noticed the lack of automation and [high] member attrition rates while volunteering at a public television station pledge drive, and saw that the traditional nonprofit...<br/>
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		<title>Memory Market Weak, But Handsets A Bright Spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The memory downturn continues as a result of weak demand, oversupply, and price wars, with many memory vendors struggling with losses. Leading chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE:MU) recently reported its tenth straight quarterly loss. Even the semiconductor sector looked gloomy as National...<br/>
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