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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:03 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[20 Inspirational Articles for Startup Parents]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/20-inspirational-articles-for-startup-parents/</link>
	<source url="http://jeff.io/posts/20-inspirational-articles-for-startup-parents"><![CDATA[20 Inspirational Articles for Startup Parents]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[I’m married, have two wonderful boys (my oldest pictured above) and a range of startup products and projects on the go at any given time. In 2011 I tweeted and blogged about the challenges of combining a business/startup at home with raising a family. I’m working on new product, Intigi, which has helped discover content that is interesting and relevant to me. Here are 20 articles that sum up the issues faced by startup parents. Some made me laugh, others had me nodding (and sometimes cringing) in recognition but all contain nuggets of advice and perspective that is rare in the startup community. Most reassuringly, it’s a reminder that we’re not alone. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:03 CST</pubDate>
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	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[There are two types of successful startup incubators in the world]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/there-are-two-types-of-successful-startup-incubators-in-the-world/</link>
	<source url="http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2012/02/06/types-startup-incubators-world-yc-techstars/"><![CDATA[There are two types of successful startup incubators in the world]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[An oversimplification of the incubator/accelerator space is to classify them as either a Y-Combinator (YC) or a TechStars (TS). Incubators and accelerators have but one purpose: move startups along in their life cycle at a faster pace than they would normally and increase the likelihood of a return by providing that service. If you are a startup looking at applying to an incubator you need to understand that the differences in how these programs differ go beyond the money they give you in exchange for equity. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:16:34 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/there-are-two-types-of-successful-startup-incubators-in-the-world/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The evolution of the businessman (infographic)]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-evolution-of-the-businessman-infographic/</link>
	<source url="http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/04/businessman-evolution-infographic/"><![CDATA[The evolution of the businessman (infographic)]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Business is so easy, even a caveman could do it – and he did. What was once the business of surviving has evolved over the years, but with one underlying similarity – the best will outlast the rest. The infographic below demonstrates significant eras of business by reintroducing prominent characters throughout history, a skill set for the time, and tools used and created to get the job done. As you journey through the prehistoric man, the medieval knight, and the poet of the renaissance, you may find yourself looking toward the future, and what we have contributed. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:30:45 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/the-evolution-of-the-businessman-infographic/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/in-the-future-the-business-founder-will-not-be-ignored/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/in-the-future-the-business-founder-will-not-be-ignored/"><![CDATA[In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The entrepreneurial world loves nothing like a good meme. One of the more recent ones making the rounds from Palo Alto to Paris is that a startup simply can’t get off the ground without a technical founder. Investors, entrepreneurs and tech journalists alike will tell you that if you’re not a whiz kid fresh out of Stanford’s CS program, you are essentially not fundable — entrepreneura non grata. Well, I am here to tell you that they are right. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:55:15 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/in-the-future-the-business-founder-will-not-be-ignored/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Four Levels of Idea Theft]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/four-levels-of-idea-theft/</link>
	<source url="http://prog21.dadgum.com/126.html"><![CDATA[Four Levels of Idea Theft]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Imagine you've just seen a tremendously exiting piece of software--a mobile app, a web app, a game--and your immediate reaction is "Why didn't I think of that?!" With your mind full of new possibilities, you start on a project, a project enabled by exposure to the exciting software. What happens next is up to you. How far do you let your newfound motivation take you? ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:17:53 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>help</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-help/four-levels-of-idea-theft/</guid>
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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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