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		<title>How the first Dotcom Bubble began</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Dotcom bubble started out more than 15 years ago, in 1995. The period was marked by the overnight surge of countless Internet-based companies, the so-called &#8220;dotcoms&#8221;, and by the increasing market valuation of such companies. First dotcom bubble: The beginnings The beginning of the 90s brought an explosive growth in the personal computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Martin Zwilling, VC and advisor: &#8220;Partner with someone who has done it before&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an entrepreneur trying to make it in the business world, you are probably already following Martin Zwilling&#8216;s blog posts on Startup Professional Musings. And so you should, because Martin has been around tech startups for the last 30 years. He is a Board Member at Callaman Ventures, a member of the Arizona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can You Learn From Startup Failures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to failure, American entrepreneurs are more relaxed; they&#8217;ve been exposed to it, they know it happens and they try to learn from it. On the other hand, Europeans tend to look at failure like it&#8217;s something dishonorable and shameful, which you should hide. I&#8217;m happy to see more and more articles advocating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Young and Restless Entrepreneurs Really Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneur myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we say entrepreneur, we automatically think of a 20 year old computer geek, working out of his parents&#8217; garage, having nothing to lose except his allowance. Surprisingly, statistics disagree with us. On Dharmesh Shah&#8217;s blog, I found some amazing facts about entrepreneurs: - Most founders started their first business when they were 40. - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screw It, Let&#8217;s Do It</title>
		<link>http://www.thestartuparena.com/screw-it-lets-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brutally honest book on entrepreneurship by Richard Branson, the eccentric British millionaire. Branson doesn&#8217;t seem to care much about protecting his image, since he tells even the most embarrassing stories about himself, including the episode with the tax evasion that led to his arrest. The book looks very much like a collection of random [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifestyle business vs. equity business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a month ago, I was at an event were this dilemma arose: lifestyle business or equity business? The discussions soon became heated, each founder defending their business style. Although I consider this to be just as much a dilemma as &#8220;potatoes vs. tomatoes&#8221; is, let&#8217;s dissect the issue a little further. Lifestyle business refers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Impossible: Launching a Startup in 48 Hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Success Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although is seems impossible to get a web project up and running in just two days, this happened last week in London, at the Launch48 event. After presentations on PR for web apps, legal issues, business models, building what customers want, covered by Steve Parks' live blogging, participants started pitching their ideas.

The six lucky winners got to see their dream app become real, with a team of over 15 people working all weekend to make it happen. I wanted to know more about what goes on there, so I talked to one of the winners: Andrew Dancy, founder of protected.cc.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Scott Wheeler, founder of a Y Combinator Backed Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Directed Edge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Wheeler is 29 years old, he was born in Texas and is a German resident since 2001. After working for 6 years on open-source projects, he quit his job and founded, together with a friend, a startup called Directed Edge. Their project is a recommendations engine that can be plugged into any website and start delivering Amazon-like recommendations in real time.

Scott and his partner, Valentin, applied to Y Combinator as soon as the company was launched but, although they were certain they'd get accepted, they didn't. After this rejection, the two partners started coding furiously and weresoon invited to mini Seedcamp Berlin. A year and 1000 pitches later, they applied again to Y Combinator, and this time, they got in. Scott tells the whole story on their blog, but I wanted to know more about what goes on inside Y Combinator, so I contacted Scott and asked him a few questions.]]></description>
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		<title>The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don&#8217;t Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new startup is born. You have finally made the big step you've been dreaming about for years: becoming an entrepreneur. You work day and night, trying to create the best product out there. However, focusing on your product alone is hardly enough, so you'll end up neglecting every other aspect of your business.

Soon enough, you'll find yourself overwhelmed with orders, clients, invoices, bank statements, bug reports, complaints, suppliers, delivery dates, employees problems... ]]></description>
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		<title>On Entrepreneurship with Radu Georgescu</title>
		<link>http://www.thestartuparena.com/despre-antreprenoriat-cu-radu-georgescu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugenia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radu Georgescu has founded GeCAD Software in 1992. The company provided an antivirus and security solution named RAV (Romanian AntiVirus), which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003 for an undisclosed sum, estimated between 10 - 20 million dollars.

Here is some of his advice to young entrepreneurs: ...]]></description>
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