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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:10:14 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Fundraising: From $1,000 To $1,000,000]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/fundraising-from-1000-to-1000000/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/08/excerpt-fundraising-from-1000-to-1000000/"><![CDATA[Fundraising: From $1,000 To $1,000,000]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[If you pay attention to the headlines about startups getting millions of dollars of funding from investors, venture capitalists, or partnerships, you might think the fund-raising process happens overnight. It all sounds so easy: Some entrepreneur with a thousand dollars in his pocket creates a great PowerPoint investor presentation, secures a few meetings with important people, and bam! A handshake, some signatures, and the deal is done. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:10:14 CDT</pubDate>
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	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA['The Idea Factory': How Bell Labs invented the future]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-idea-factory-how-bell-labs-invented-the-future/</link>
	<source url="http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/21/2887206/jon-gertner-idea-factory-bell-labs-great-american-age-innovation-book-review"><![CDATA['The Idea Factory': How Bell Labs invented the future]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Last fall, in an essay titled "Innovation Starvation," sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson lamented the decline of the American space program. He recalled the awe and wonder he felt growing up, sitting in front of grainy black-and-white images of the Gemini missions. And he explained the great disappointment he felt at witnessing the final Space Shuttle launch.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:39:57 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-idea-factory-how-bell-labs-invented-the-future/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Startup Owners Manual by Steven Blank]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/startup-owners-manual-by-steven-blank/</link>
	<source url="http://www.stevenblank.com/startup_index_qty.html"><![CDATA[Startup Owners Manual by Steven Blank]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its sequel… The Startup Owner's Manual. The Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices that have swept the startup world. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:26:57 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/startup-owners-manual-by-steven-blank/</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 03:51:12 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[Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers...]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/business-model-generation-a-handbook-for-visionaries-game-changers--/</link>
	<source url="http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/"><![CDATA[Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers...]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:58:01 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/business-model-generation-a-handbook-for-visionaries-game-changers--/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Nail It then Scale It]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/nail-it-then-scale-it-1/</link>
	<source url="http://www.amazon.com/Nail-then-Scale-Entrepreneurs-Breakthrough/dp/0983723605/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316562254&sr=1-1"><![CDATA[Nail It then Scale It]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Why do most new businesses fail, yet a few entrepreneurs have a habit of winning over and over again? The shocking discovery of years of research and trial is that most startups fail by doing the “right things,” but doing them out of order. In other words, human nature combined with our entrepreneurial drive puts us on autopilot to become part of the 70% to 90% of ventures that fail. From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the Nail It Then Scale It method is based on pattern recognition of the timeless principles and key practices used by successful entrepreneurs to repeatedly innovate. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:48:04 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/nail-it-then-scale-it-1/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Lean Startup: The Missing Chapter]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/lean-startup-the-missing-chapter/</link>
	<source url="http://blog.marksweep.com/post/12042953793/lean-startup-the-missing-chapter"><![CDATA[Lean Startup: The Missing Chapter]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Lean Startup: The Missing Chapter I recently finished The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. This is a seminal business book. The Lean Startup takes its name from the lean manufacturing techniques made famous... ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:01:37 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/lean-startup-the-missing-chapter/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Book review: The Lean Startup]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/book-review-the-lean-startup/</link>
	<source url="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8a022f32-de33-11e0-9fb7-00144feabdc0.html"><![CDATA[Book review: The Lean Startup]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Every so often a business book comes along that changes how we think about innovation and entrepreneurship. Clay Christensen’s theories on disruptive innovation and Geoffrey Moore’s potent metaphors of “crossing the chasm” from small to mass markets, and going “inside the tornado” of starting a business, have loomed large over entrepreneurial theory for years. Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup has the chops to join this exalted company.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:40:16 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/book-review-the-lean-startup/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-capitalist-and-the-entrepreneur/</link>
	<source url="http://mises.org/resources/5367/The-Capitalist-and-the-Entrepreneur-Essays-on-Organizations-and-Markets"><![CDATA[The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is a hot topic in academic, managerial, and policy circles. Yet researchers and policymakers tend to define entrepreneurship narrowly as business start-ups, and entrepreneurs as young dreamers with a particular personality. In fact, as Peter G. Klein argues, entrepreneurship is a far broader, pervasive, and more important phenomenon in the market and in the free society. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:05:39 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-capitalist-and-the-entrepreneur/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Lean Startup Book is here]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-lean-startup-book-is-here/</link>
	<source url="http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/07/lean-startup-book-is-here.htm"><![CDATA[The Lean Startup Book is here]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The book contains tons of case studies. Some are from famous companies that you've heard of, like Dropbox or Groupon. Some are from obscure startups who you haven't heard of -- yet. And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. But the book is much more than just stories. What I am most proud of is what I hope will be a significant contribution to our collective conversation about entrepreneurship. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:46:27 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-lean-startup-book-is-here/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/down-with-innovation-up-with-imitation/</link>
	<source url="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/03/down-with-innovation-up-with-imitation/"><![CDATA[Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is professional burnout, but lately I’ve been getting extremely tired of all the stupid things people say about innovation. Especially stupid positive things. A great deal of the stupidity in the conversation about innovation is driven by the desperate urge to be original for the sake of being original. There is a pervasive, unexamined assumption that originality is always a good thing. Copycats, by Oded Shenkar is a delightful little book that takes on a project that I strongly support: taking down the holy cow of innovation and extolling the virtues of imitation. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:39:42 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/down-with-innovation-up-with-imitation/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[I.D.E.A. To Exit: An Entrepreneurial Journey]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/i-d-e-a-to-exit-an-entrepreneurial-journey/</link>
	<source url="http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/17/book-excerpt-i-d-e-a-to-exit-an-entrepreneurial-journey/"><![CDATA[I.D.E.A. To Exit: An Entrepreneurial Journey]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The topic of honesty and ethics may seem trite. Most new entrants to entrepreneurism don’t give it a thought in their business development process because at the moment it is not a functional component. It is not a visible aspect of the company that has to be created in order to begin business. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 09:47:34 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/i-d-e-a-to-exit-an-entrepreneurial-journey/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Successful Entrepreneurs Are "B" Students, Not "A" Students]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/successful-entrepreneurs-are-b-students-not-a-students/</link>
	<source url="http://www.businessinsider.com/lucky-or-smart-bo-peabody-2011-4"><![CDATA[Successful Entrepreneurs Are "B" Students, Not "A" Students]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA["A" students let their drive for perfection get in the way. My mom used to always say, "Bo, you could go to Harvard or to the local community college; no matter what, you'll always get a B." Mom was right. B-students don't know everything about anything and are excellent at nothing. B-students do, however, know something about a lot of things, and they can complete almost any task with some modicum of competence. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:23:31 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>2</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/successful-entrepreneurs-are-b-students-not-a-students/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Little Bets, The Book]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/little-bets-the-book/</link>
	<source url="http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/18/little-bets-the-book/"><![CDATA[Little Bets, The Book]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Google, Pixar, Twitter. All of them started as side projects or experiments which only later turned into big ideas. In a world of lean startups, the mantra is to get a product out there in the hands of consumers and keep making changes until something clicks. It is called, appropriately enough, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, and it is just hitting Amazon and the book stores this week.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:00:23 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/little-bets-the-book/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Illusions of Entrepreneurship]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-illusions-of-entrepreneurship/</link>
	<source url="http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300113310"><![CDATA[The Illusions of Entrepreneurship]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of assumptions.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:18:55 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/the-illusions-of-entrepreneurship/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Excerpt: The Fallacy of Big Ideas]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/excerpt-the-fallacy-of-big-ideas/</link>
	<source url="http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/03/11/excerpt-maxim-founder-felix-dennis-on-the-fallacy-of-big-ideas/"><![CDATA[Excerpt: The Fallacy of Big Ideas]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[There is a fallacy rooted in the minds of many who wish to become rich — the fallacy of the great idea. Having a great idea is not enough. It is the manner in which ideas are executed that counts. Implementation will always trump ideas, however good those ideas are. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:02:14 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/excerpt-the-fallacy-of-big-ideas/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs Who Create Value vs. Entrepreneurs Who Lock Up Value]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/entrepreneurs-who-create-value-vs-entrepreneurs-who-lock-up-value/</link>
	<source url="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110130/00441512884/entrepreneurs-who-create-value-vs-entrepreneurs-who-lock-up-value.shtml"><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs Who Create Value vs. Entrepreneurs Who Lock Up Value]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[While entrepreneurs are out there busting their humps, making something cheaper, expanding its usage, increasing productivity, fending off fierce competition, and hoping to turn a profit along the way, there are those who, through the stroke of a pen, make a killing doing absolutely nothing of value. These "political entrepreneurs" leverage their political power to own something and then overcharge or tax the crap out of the rest of us to use it. Political power instead of competition.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:10:06 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>2</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/entrepreneurs-who-create-value-vs-entrepreneurs-who-lock-up-value/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[How to Cross the Chasm]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/how-to-cross-the-chasm/</link>
	<source url="http://edgehopper.com/%E2%80%A8-what-geoff-recognized-was-that-there-is-more-to-this-curve-he-recognized-that-there-is-a-difference-between-disruptive-innovations-those-that-are-changing-the-game-alto"><![CDATA[How to Cross the Chasm]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the good fortune of meeting and speaking with Geoffrey Moore, author of the widely acclaimed books Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado. If you haven’t heard of him before, Geoff writes and speaks about the technology adoption lifecycle and the marketing and business strategies for successfully navigating this lifecycle. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:20:41 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/how-to-cross-the-chasm/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Big ideas from Marty Cagan’s “Inspired” that helped me feel more confident]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/big-ideas-from-marty-cagan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cinspired%E2%80%9D-that-helped-me-feel-more-confident-1/</link>
	<source url="http://www.zacharyburt.com/2011/01/big-ideas-from-marty-cagans-inspired-that-helped-me-feel-more-confident-on-how-to-proceed-with-my-business/"><![CDATA[Big ideas from Marty Cagan’s “Inspired” that helped me feel more confident]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Big ideas from Marty Cagan’s “Inspired” that helped me feel more confident on how to proceed with my business. This is a book that I suspect I will coming back to time and time again… it’s convenient, too, because the book is organized into 41 discrete chapters. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:35:23 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/big-ideas-from-marty-cagan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cinspired%E2%80%9D-that-helped-me-feel-more-confident-1/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Business Books are for the Birds]]></title>
	<link>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/business-books-are-for-the-birds/</link>
	<source url="http://taylorwc.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/business-books-are-for-the-birds/"><![CDATA[Business Books are for the Birds]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[I should be clear about something–I don’t really hate all business books, and there are some that can be hugely beneficial for the majority of people to read. That being said, most business books, at least for entrepreneurs, are a colossal waste of time. I know a few people (and some founders) who swear by books like Good to Great. I have a lot of respect for some of these people, and they’ve built very successful businesses. But I think that their reliance on books like this is misplaced. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:54:38 CST</pubDate>
	<author>admin</author>
	<category>books</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.startupbug.com/startup-books/business-books-are-for-the-birds/</guid>
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