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		<title>A legal resource for technology entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I came across the Technology Startup Law BLOG.  The author, Sam Wu, describes the blog as &#8220;a down-to-earth legal resource for startups, emerging growth companies and venture capital firms&#8221;, and from what I saw, I agree.  In addition to discussing the nuts and bolts of forming the entity, the blog discusses other important topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the iPhone Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected, Apple&#8217;s announcement of the new 3G iPhone, and the new AppStore, has the press aflutter.  I have heard predictions of Apple selling 60 million units or more over the next year, and the AppStore becoming a major revenue generator for the company.  Its easy to come to this conclusion, as people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone - What&#8217;s the Opportunity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, I have been intrigued about the opportunities in the mobile phone industry, specific to application development.  Google and Apple have fueled the excitement among software developers with their activities in this space, with Google developing the Android platform, and Apple&#8217;s announcements of the iPhone SDK coming AppStore.  These two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give away your equity!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being in a leadership position means that you are responsible for looking out for the people under your stewardship.  Excelling here is the right thing to do, but can also pay dividends throughout your professional life.  That&#8217;s the philosophy behind Chris Michel&#8217;s extra equity grant to three key senior managers at his company Affinity Labs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaming of Dropping Out of Harvard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its amazing what a role model can do to your perspective.  Facebook, founded by Harvard ex-students  Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, have set an example of finding success through dropping out of school.  And their success was not lost of fellow students.  This WSJ article explores how Facebook has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurs In Residence</title>
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A new model is emerging for VC&#8217;s.  As noted in this Industry Standard article, Benchmark Capital, a prominent VC in the Silicon Valley who funded ebay back in the day, has been hiring &#8220;entrepreneurs in residence&#8221;.  These people are entrepreneurs who reside at the VC while looking for business ideas.  Once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CEO Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is often the case in life, open communication is the key for maintaining a constructive relationship.  This also applies with the VC and the management of its portfolio companies.  A good VC should provide regular guidance, as their experience is an important attribute that they bring to the table.   Without open communication between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for first-time CEO&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For people leading start-up companies, its often all about product development, chasing customers, and raising money.  Everything else is considered unnecessary, and left for another day.  The author of this article from the Colorado Life Science Deal Flow blog suggests that the first-time CEO should spend some time on things that, while not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The customer in-hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At USC, where I am a graduate student, the entrepreneurship professors repeatedly stress the importance of &#8220;customer in-hand&#8221; before starting a new venture.  In fact, one of the core courses requires the student to talk to 50 or more potential customers to force you to find out if the perceived demand is real.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 rules for entrepreneurial success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French entrepreneur, Loic Le Meur, lists his 10 rules for start-up success on this TechCrunch posting.  I think that Loic is right on the money with all of these.  To expand on the list, often times, people looking for an idea try to come up with world-changing concepts, when in reality, the ideas that provide [...]]]></description>
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