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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:03:50 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[You'll Never Be As Successful As You Want To Be...]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/youll-never-be-as-successful-as-you-want-to-be--/</link>
	<source url="http://bennesvig.com/2012/02/03/youll-never-be-as-successful-as-you-want-to-be/"><![CDATA[You'll Never Be As Successful As You Want To Be...]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[“You’ll never be as successful as you want because you don’t demand shit you want.” An old boss told that to me. It’s blunt, but true. No one really wants to help you unless there is something in it for them or it fits into their larger plan. People can’t read your mind. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:03:50 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/youll-never-be-as-successful-as-you-want-to-be--/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Top three reasons NOT to do a local + online startup]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-a-local-online-startup/</link>
	<source url="http://www.crashdev.com/2012/01/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-local.html"><![CDATA[Top three reasons NOT to do a local + online startup]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Hi, my name's Chris, and I'm an online-local-a-holic. I spent four years of my life (and several million dollars of Brad Feld's money -- sorry Brad) trying to build a sustainable business in online-to-local customer engagement at Judy's Book. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:59:44 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-a-local-online-startup/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Las Vegas: Startup City]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/las-vegas-startup-city/</link>
	<source url="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/las-vegas-startup-city-02022012.html"><![CDATA[Las Vegas: Startup City]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The history of Las Vegas is full of determined men with outsize egos and grand plans. There was Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s, envisioning a gambling mecca in the desert, away from the reach of law enforcement. A half century later, developers like Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson added pomp, glitz, and more than a touch of excess to the area that has become known as the Strip.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:53:31 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/las-vegas-startup-city/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Problem Discovery Interview]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-problem-discovery-interview/</link>
	<source url="http://desperatelyseekingvalidation.com/blog/2012/02/the-problem-discovery-interview/"><![CDATA[The Problem Discovery Interview]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[If you’re following lean startups, you’re undoubtedly familiar with concepts like customer discovery and problem/solution interviews. This morning, I was reading Paul Graham’s essay from the inception of YCombinator, “Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas,” and thought of a new type of interview that smart people should try: the problem discovery interview. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:22:13 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-problem-discovery-interview/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/why-smart-people-have-bad-ideas/</link>
	<source url="http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html"><![CDATA[Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Most smart people don't do that very well. But adding this ability to raw brainpower is like adding tin to copper. The result is bronze, which is so much harder that it seems a different metal. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:21:03 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/why-smart-people-have-bad-ideas/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-startup-boom-is-a-disguised-jobs-fair-for-big-corporations/</link>
	<source url="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/silicon-valleys-dirty-little-secret-the-startup-boom-is-a-disguised-jobs-fair-for-big-corporations/2138"><![CDATA[The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[In San Francisco cafes and bars, even on the street, I overhear people talking about their startup ideas, business plans, and goals. And there are tons of incubators, Angels, wannabe Angels, VC firms, making investments in startups. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:19:22 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-startup-boom-is-a-disguised-jobs-fair-for-big-corporations/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 2)]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-2/</link>
	<source url="http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/02/02/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-2/"><![CDATA[The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 2)]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[In this post I talk about why I acquired my most recent startup, HitTail.com. If you’re interested in hearing more about due diligence, which things I attacked first after the acquisition, thoughts on valuation methods, and answers to other questions from the Hacker News discussion, stick around for part 3. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:18:22 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-2/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/how-marc-andreessen-makes-silicon-valley-magic/</link>
	<source url="http://gigaom.com/2012/02/02/marc-andreessen-horowitz-silicon-valley-startups/"><![CDATA[How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[At just 2.5 years old, Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become a tech industry institution with holdings in Facebook, Twitter, and more. GigaOM talked with Andreessen to get his thoughts on Silicon Valley and the larger tech landscape. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:56:47 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/how-marc-andreessen-makes-silicon-valley-magic/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[You’re Overthinking It]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/you%E2%80%99re-overthinking-it/</link>
	<source url="http://engineering.gomiso.com/2012/02/01/youre-overthinking-it/"><![CDATA[You’re Overthinking It]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[You comb Hacker News daily, marveling at the neatly packaged startup tales, uber-effective best practices, super clever engineering solutions, and lots and lots of links to websites filled with Helvetica, minimalism, and pastel colors. You’ve attended Lean Startup workshops, read Four Steps to the Epiphany, and subscribe to the Silicon Valley Product Group blog. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:25:55 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/you%E2%80%99re-overthinking-it/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Y Combinator: Summer 2012 Funding]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/y-combinator-summer-2012-funding/</link>
	<source url="http://ycombinator.com/apply.html?s2012"><![CDATA[Y Combinator: Summer 2012 Funding]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Y Combinator is now accepting applications for the summer 2012 funding cycle. It will take place in Mountain View, CA from June through August 2012.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:01:50 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/y-combinator-summer-2012-funding/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-productivity-secret/</link>
	<source url="http://blog.idonethis.com/post/16736314554/silicon-valleys-productivity-secret"><![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The wonder of Silicon Valley has been its rich history of producing incredibly capital efficient companies operating at massive scale.  No doubt part of that achievement lies in the capital efficiency of software engineering itself where technology gives incredible leverage to create and disrupt established industries.  Nevertheless, as a company scales, individual engineers need to work together in concert which results in the industry-agnostic problem of people management. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:56:46 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-productivity-secret/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Flailing Fast: A Startup Story]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/flailing-fast-a-startup-story/</link>
	<source url="http://www.flailfast.com/"><![CDATA[Flailing Fast: A Startup Story]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Common wisdom dictates that modern startups should fail fast and cheap. Until recently, common wisdom extolled the virtues of asbestos and eugenics. I’m uncommonly skeptical of common wisdom.” — An exceptional smart ass ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:51:12 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/flailing-fast-a-startup-story/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Research Reveals Engineers More Likely than MBAs to Build Companies]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/research-reveals-engineers-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-companies/</link>
	<source url="http://blog.identified.com/2012/01/new-identified-research-reveals-engineers-far-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-and-run-companies.html"><![CDATA[Research Reveals Engineers More Likely than MBAs to Build Companies]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[In our latest edition of the “Revenge of the Nerds” white paper research series, Identified has discovered that a growing number of company founders and CEOs today are far more likely to hold advanced engineering degrees than MBAs and that the overall age of business leaders is steadily trending downward. We see this shift as a significant impact on corporate culture with younger, more technically inclined entrepreneurs at the helm. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:48:46 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/research-reveals-engineers-more-likely-than-mbas-to-build-companies/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[How Do We Identify Good Ideas?]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/how-do-we-identify-good-ideas/</link>
	<source url="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/how-do-we-identifiy-good-ideas/?"><![CDATA[How Do We Identify Good Ideas?]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[How can we sort our genius from our rubbish and become better at self-criticism? Frontal Cortex blogger Jonah Lehrer reports on a new study suggesting the surprising power of sleeping on it. I’ve always been fascinated by the failures of genius. Consider Bob Dylan. How did the same songwriter who produced Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde also conclude that Down in the Groove was worthy of release? ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:30:32 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/how-do-we-identify-good-ideas/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[“Entrepreneur in Residence” – Who are you kidding?]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/%E2%80%9Centrepreneur-in-residence%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-who-are-you-kidding/</link>
	<source url="http://brajeshwar.com/2012/entrepreneur-in-residence-who-are-you-kidding/"><![CDATA[“Entrepreneur in Residence” – Who are you kidding?]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[These days, quite a number of big companies have them. These ‘entrepreneurs’ flaunt their titles just as flashily as they could. Personally, I find it rather derogatory to the spirit of entrepreneurship. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:27:49 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/%E2%80%9Centrepreneur-in-residence%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-who-are-you-kidding/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Problem with startups is that they can’t solve the big problems]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/problem-with-startups-is-that-they-can%E2%80%99t-solve-the-big-problems/</link>
	<source url="http://remarkedly.com/2012/01/27/the-problem-with-startups-is-that-they-cant-solve-the-big-problems/"><![CDATA[Problem with startups is that they can’t solve the big problems]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Big problems are problems for a reason – they are problems that are hard to solve. If there was an easy solution, one of the thousands of ambitious, smart engineers out there would have solved them by now. So instead of solving big problems, the smartest, most creative brains in Silicon Valley are building apps to help us organize group lunches, share funny photos, or aggregate daily deals. I’m sorry, but these aren’t the big problems. In fact, most of these new startups are creating more problems than they solve. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:26:16 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/problem-with-startups-is-that-they-can%E2%80%99t-solve-the-big-problems/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen’s New Startup Generator]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/foundersoup-stanford-and-andreessen%E2%80%99s-new-startup-generator/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/founder-soup/"><![CDATA[FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen’s New Startup Generator]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That’s why a group of Stanford computer science and business students started the Andreessen Horowitz-backed FounderSoup program. It’s designed to give entrepreneurs with an idea or a fledgling company a chance to pitch — not to raise funding, but to recruit co-founders. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:24:55 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>news</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/foundersoup-stanford-and-andreessen%E2%80%99s-new-startup-generator/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Why Start-ups Are Like Fruit Flies]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/why-start-ups-are-like-fruit-flies/</link>
	<source url="http://www.inc.com/donna-wells/why-start-ups-are-like-fruit-flies.html"><![CDATA[Why Start-ups Are Like Fruit Flies]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Your genetic tolerance for risk—coupled with new productivity gains through smart technology—can help your company revolutionize its industry. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:07 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/why-start-ups-are-like-fruit-flies/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Age of AngelList]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-age-of-angellist/</link>
	<source url="http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/opinion/1279/the-age-of-angellist/"><![CDATA[The Age of AngelList]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[UK tech investors that avoid the seed stage are going to be losing out on the most exciting investment opportunities after Facebook goes public. A $100bn IPO will create an incredible pool of seed money that will be showered onto willing entrepreneurs, says Rodolfo Rosini. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:58:38 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-age-of-angellist/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-1/</link>
	<source url="http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/01/25/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-1/"><![CDATA[The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Based on the title of this post you might be thinking I have mad stacks of money in the bank. That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:43:24 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-1/</guid>
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