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		<title>Netbooks at $99 from AT&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/04/04/netbooks-at-99-from-att/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece of news is exciting enough to merit a blog post.
This year, at least one wireless phone company in the United States will probably offer netbooks free with paid data plans, copying similar programs in Japan, according to industry experts.
But this revolution is not just about falling prices. Personal computers — and the companies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1499&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The good stuff we want in an Advisor</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/03/31/the-good-stuff-we-want-in-an-advisor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard the ex-CEO of TeamOn, a Startup I had worked with, was due to quit his position at Research in Motion and start out on his next venture, I sensed an opportunity to learn more about the early days in a Startup. Shirish happened to be with the same RIM office as I did; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1443&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Women in Business Want?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/03/14/what-women-in-business-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of Woman&#8217;s Day, Silicon India organized a Women 2.0 Summit across four major cities in India to bring together women to discuss issues around professional and personal growth for career-oriented women. I was surprised to see an extremely interactive audience with panelists having to field a lot of questions.
All top women executives agreed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1455&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understand your Audience – 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/03/08/understand-your-audience-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alok Kejriwal tore in to the &#8216;gLocal&#8217; strategy citing how Orkut and Facebook have eaten in to BigAdda&#8217;s share. There is zero advantage gained from geographic positioning when marketing your Web application online.
Alok was at his best, pulling up factual Web Analytics data from Games2Win to show what the head and the tail is like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1406&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understand your Audience</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/03/07/understand-your-audience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the Pune OpenCoffee Club meets to discuss  Marketing for Web Startups. We are incredibly lucky to have Alok Kejriwal, Games2Win and Anuj Khurana, PurpleTrail talk to the community.
If you look at how India-centric Social Networks are shaping up, the importance of today&#8217;s talk is amplified. In fact, traffic &#38; engagement is every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1374&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Service is the Experience</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2009/01/18/customer-service-is-the-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zappos knows that for ecommerce, your phone call is their best chance to have a positive customer service experience. The only other company that I know that gets this is Apple. Phone support IS the customer experience.
- Inside Zappos, Top Secret, Always On.
Time and time again, when booking air travel tickets, purchasing a service or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1336&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes on Money as a motivator</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/12/31/quotes-on-money-as-a-motivator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Mark) Cuban grew up motivated by money, he wanted to be rich.
~ from Jared&#8217;s Money as Motivation.
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
~ from the movie Wall Street (1987), Carl Fox to his son Bud.
So with a family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1315&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How BookEazy got its groove back</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/12/16/how-bookeazy-got-its-groove-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 15th, we discontinued the membership based BookEazy movie ticketing service. An overwhelming response from movie-goers perplexed by our decision to pause operations, compelled us write out our own experiences and why we decided to hibernate for the time being.
All startups and first-time entrepreneurs struggle in their search for a definitive identity in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1261&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why be at Proto &amp; Headstart 2009?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/12/09/why-be-at-proto-headstart-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried selling an invention or an idea? If you happen to be a &#8216;nutty&#8217; entrepreneur who is always thinking about building (and selling) the next new new thing &#8211; I have news for you. Help has just arrived in the form of innovation show cases &#8211; Proto.in and Headstart.in.
Earlier this year, Lipikaar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1267&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes – Alan Kay on the future</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/11/19/quotes-alan-kay-on-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.&#8221;
&#8211;Alan Kay
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		<title>The Deception that is Market Size</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/10/31/the-deception-that-is-market-size/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myth: Size of Market is directly correlated to good/early results.
Good entrepreneurs know their Size of Market, Total Addressable Market and Share of Market (WTH is TAM, SAM, SOM). These metrics are important as they represent the cap on your potential Sales volume.
Size of Market has zero correlation to the probability of success of a venture. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1237&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bezos on pain and invention</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/10/24/jeff-bezos-on-pain-and-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are willing to plant seeds that take five to seven years to grow into reasonable things,” he said in an interview. “You can’t do big, clean-sheet invention unless you are willing to invest for long periods of time.”
- Jeff Bezos, &#8220;Amid the gloom an e-commerce war&#8220;, New York Times.
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		<title>Lipikaar wins the Manthan Award South Asia for e-Localizaton!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/10/21/lipikaar-wins-manthan-award-south-asia-for-localizaton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re absolutely thrilled to win the prestigious Manthan award for South Asia, for the e-Localization category. The award was presented to us at a grand event in New Delhi, on Saturday Oct 18, 2008 by Padma Bhushan recipient and the very inspiring Shri Anna Hazare.
Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative to recognize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1231&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CSI Pune reaches out to Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/10/08/csi-pune-reaches-out-to-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune of being the Guest Editor for the quarterly newsletter of The Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter. The newsletter, titled DeskTalk recently won the National Newsletter Award.
The theme for this edition was Entrepreneurship and we managed to put together an interesting set of articles on various aspects of the startup [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1229&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do Entrepreneurs really want?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/10/07/what-do-entrepreneurs-really-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a short article on what motivates entrepreneurs.
The right challenge or adventure. Or is it just necessity-driven entrepreneurship? The right challenge inspires Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Our Software on every PC&#8221;, Google&#8217;s &#8220;Renewable energy cheaper than coal&#8221; and many other entrepreneurial initiatives that have changed the world.
The right friends to work with. The starting team is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1227&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on Technology Entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/09/14/perspective-on-technolog-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the best parts that I recall from Bootstrapping Startups with Shridhar Shukla, Tarun Malaviya, and Anand Soman at the Pune OpenCoffee Club. Between them, the panelists have over 8 startup avataars which were bootstrapped and VC-funded.
I have had to paraphrase some of the quotes &#8211; at the same time, trying to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1212&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Power Yoga startup in the city</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/08/10/a-power-yoga-startup-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met a young Canadian girl, Daphnee, who has chosen Pune for her startup too.
She has been a yoga practitioner for over 8 years and came to India in 2005. She has been traveling and teaching in different parts of the country and finally decided to start up in Pune. I enrolled for her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1178&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling and Startup Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/07/24/startups-and-bowling-pins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success in new markets for Startups is a lot like Bowling, where you have to hit the right pins first with all the right angles in order to get a ricochet effect and down all the other pins. Focus your energy on the right pin, but don&#8217;t lose the big picture.  &#8212; Paraphrased from our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1165&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lipikaar’s a big hit at Proto!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/07/22/lipikaar-at-proto4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 48 hours of non-stop talking,  interspersed with few hours of sleep, we&#8217;re finally getting back to answering an avalanche of unread emails.
We presented Lipikaar at the summer edition of Proto IV 2008 (July 18-19, at I.I.T. Delhi) along with 15 other finalists. Here&#8217;s a video of the 6 minute presentation we made to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1150&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Energy Unlimited</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/07/04/have-energy-unlimited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every Pune OpenCoffee Club meet, you can&#8217;t help but notice the energy that Entrepreneurs bring with them. It is exciting and infectious. However, the Pune OCC is proving to be more than just about youth and learning. On July 3rd, Neeraj Arora of Google&#8217;s Corporate M&#38;A wing, Neill Brownstein and Anjana Kaul of Footprint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1148&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy to see all the action on POCC!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/06/25/footprint-ventures-to-visit-pune-startups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started the Pune Open Coffee Club in March 2008 on the suggestion of a friend, Vijay Anand (Founder, Proto.in), little did I know that in a short span of three months, the Club would attract over 200 members.
Anjali and I used to brainstorm ways of marketing POCC, and one of the ideas that really helped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1144&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen a Bodafone?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/06/22/have-you-seen-a-bodafone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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Image courtesy of kiwanja.net
Ken Banks devotes          himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and          environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1140&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J. K. Rowling spins a different kind of magic</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/06/11/j-k-rowling-spins-a-different-kind-of-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began directing all my energy into the only work that mattered to me. Had I already succeeded in anything else, I would have never found the determination to succeed in the one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1138&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don’t get paid for working hard.</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/05/30/i-dont-get-paid-for-working-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get paid for working long hours. (I don&#8217;t even get a comforting &#8220;I appreciate how hard you worked&#8221; speech from a supervisor).
I don&#8217;t get paid for the million emails, thousand proposals, and hundred presentations I&#8217;ve produced.
I don&#8217;t get paid for saying no to short-term opportunities in the interest of focusing on the product.
I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1135&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurial Judgment</title>
		<link>http://blog.sukshma.net/2008/04/10/entrepreneurial-judgment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the day on Entrepreneurial Judgment by Marc (pmarca),
You&#8217;d better not have a lot of doubts about what you are doing because everyone else will, and if you do too, you&#8217;ll probably give up.
Of course, an entrepreneur&#8217;s doubt avoidance is only a plus right up to the point where it becomes pigheaded stubbornness that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.sukshma.net&blog=19474&post=1128&subd=sdawara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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