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		<title>By: Hon.Ogheneruro Akpan.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hon.Ogheneruro Akpan.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention please,

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Best Regard,
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{Sale manager}
Email&gt; busighanagold28@gmail.com]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attention please,</p>
<p>We the management of the following  Company name {MEGA TERM LIMITED } From Ghana Is Willing To Do Business with  Any Interested Gold Buyer Around The Globe, and are also ready  to Do Long Term Business With Mutual Understanding. And  Any Interested Person who is ok with our F.C.O { Full Co-operation Offer writing  Below ,should kindly contact us for good services .</p>
<p> Perhaps we the Management of  {MEGA TERM GOLD  LIMITED} Mining And &amp; Marketing Company In Ghana Under Penalty Of Perjury , Also inviting any body whom is interested in our services , she or he is also  highly invited  to Ghana, the home of Gold coast for direct negotiation And With Full Corporate Responsibility Has With The Following Alluvial Gold For Sale.</p>
<p>Product: Alluvial Gold Dust / Bar<br />
 Quantity: 200kg<br />
 Quality: 23 Carat<br />
 Purity (96%):<br />
Price :$18,000 Per Kg ,<br />
Mode of payment: L/C or T/T</p>
<p>All Document For Export Will Be Prepared By The Seller. A Representative Of The Seller Will Accompany The Buyer To His or Her Destination after proper ascertainment  of the goods by the buyer thanks.<br />
hope To Hear From You Soon.</p>
<p>Best Regard,<br />
Hon.Ogheneruro Akpan.<br />
{Sale manager}<br />
Email&gt; <a href="mailto:busighanagold28@gmail.com">busighanagold28@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills-2/comment-page-1#comment-1544</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John,

Piece of advice: Don&#039;t tell anyone. Spend your &quot;research&quot; time building it. Some version of your vision. Then tell your friends on Twitter and let it spread. Your research should have told you that you&#039;ve already got a lot of new competitors doing the same thing, but if you&#039;re passionate about getting your vision out into the marketplace, it just might fly. Or at the very least you&#039;ll fail and not be a newbie anymore...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John,</p>
<p>Piece of advice: Don&#8217;t tell anyone. Spend your &#8220;research&#8221; time building it. Some version of your vision. Then tell your friends on Twitter and let it spread. Your research should have told you that you&#8217;ve already got a lot of new competitors doing the same thing, but if you&#8217;re passionate about getting your vision out into the marketplace, it just might fly. Or at the very least you&#8217;ll fail and not be a newbie anymore&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills-2/comment-page-1#comment-1543</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I graduated from college last May and have plans to study accounting. However, I&#039;ve had this idea for a social news site since September and after researching for many months it has completely consumed me. I know that it&#039;s different from the Diggs, Reddits, and Wikinewses of the Web. I know how people work and I know they will want to use my site. My problem is a way to find those beginning users and I&#039;ve been sweating trying to figure it out.

Anyway, it&#039;s 3:19 a.m. where I am and unfortunately this is early for me. I&#039;ve been up late for nights on end researching and this is the best post I&#039;ve read in the past six months. My one weakness is lack of business experience. But it doesn&#039;t worry me. I can learn a lot on my own through research and networking.

The possibility that I could fail more likely than succeed is exhilarating and keeps me focused and working to polish my idea and to adjust it. High risk high return theory I suppose.

Any advice? This series of posts is extremely &quot;real&quot; and in an unexpected way, inspirational. It confirmed a lot of the feelings I am having as a young entrepreneur.

Thanks, Mark.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I graduated from college last May and have plans to study accounting. However, I&#8217;ve had this idea for a social news site since September and after researching for many months it has completely consumed me. I know that it&#8217;s different from the Diggs, Reddits, and Wikinewses of the Web. I know how people work and I know they will want to use my site. My problem is a way to find those beginning users and I&#8217;ve been sweating trying to figure it out.</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s 3:19 a.m. where I am and unfortunately this is early for me. I&#8217;ve been up late for nights on end researching and this is the best post I&#8217;ve read in the past six months. My one weakness is lack of business experience. But it doesn&#8217;t worry me. I can learn a lot on my own through research and networking.</p>
<p>The possibility that I could fail more likely than succeed is exhilarating and keeps me focused and working to polish my idea and to adjust it. High risk high return theory I suppose.</p>
<p>Any advice? This series of posts is extremely &#8220;real&#8221; and in an unexpected way, inspirational. It confirmed a lot of the feelings I am having as a young entrepreneur.</p>
<p>Thanks, Mark.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills-2/comment-page-1#comment-1542</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It is only after you&#039;ve lost everything that you&#039;re free to do anything&quot; - Tyler Durden]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It is only after you&#8217;ve lost everything that you&#8217;re free to do anything&#8221; &#8211; Tyler Durden</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Donahue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Donahue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Job Mark... I like your position.

I have been part of both successful and failed startups in the past and (hopefully) learned a few lessons along the way.  It&#039;s not easy but it is very rewarding.

We launched RFID TagSource in 2006 with our own money, insane hours, and a passion to serve an unmet need in the market.  We put everything on the table and built a great business with lots of great (many Fortune 100) customers and 300% annual growth.

It is difficult for people to understand your position until their own &quot;bits&quot; are on the table.  No vacation days, no sick days, no &quot;personal days&quot;, nothing.  As the entrepreneur &quot;If you don&#039;t work then you don&#039;t get paid&quot;... simple.

As an entrepreneur I would expect employees and investors need to share that same view.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Job Mark&#8230; I like your position.</p>
<p>I have been part of both successful and failed startups in the past and (hopefully) learned a few lessons along the way.  It&#8217;s not easy but it is very rewarding.</p>
<p>We launched RFID TagSource in 2006 with our own money, insane hours, and a passion to serve an unmet need in the market.  We put everything on the table and built a great business with lots of great (many Fortune 100) customers and 300% annual growth.</p>
<p>It is difficult for people to understand your position until their own &#8220;bits&#8221; are on the table.  No vacation days, no sick days, no &#8220;personal days&#8221;, nothing.  As the entrepreneur &#8220;If you don&#8217;t work then you don&#8217;t get paid&#8221;&#8230; simple.</p>
<p>As an entrepreneur I would expect employees and investors need to share that same view.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Johnson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the &quot;Sleep is the Enemy&quot; line. I can&#039;t count the number of days of the week that I wish I didn&#039;t have to go to sleep.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the &#8220;Sleep is the Enemy&#8221; line. I can&#8217;t count the number of days of the week that I wish I didn&#8217;t have to go to sleep.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Suster</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills-2/comment-page-1#comment-1539</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Suster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen, Shai, it&#039;s an unfortunate fact but all investors take into account the personal circumstances of the CEO including age &amp; stage.  Nothing is ever 100% and exceptions are made all the time.  But it&#039;s true that life as a startup CEO is easier pre kids or when you&#039;re kids are 10+.  Ask anyone who has kids in the 0-8 ranges what life is like if you want to be a &quot;present&quot; father or mother.

We&#039;re not ageist and have backed plenty of people in their 30&#039;s / 40&#039;s.  In fact, some of these have been our most successful investments.  But I&#039;m certain it crosses the mind of most investors as they consider new investments.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen, Shai, it&#8217;s an unfortunate fact but all investors take into account the personal circumstances of the CEO including age &amp; stage.  Nothing is ever 100% and exceptions are made all the time.  But it&#8217;s true that life as a startup CEO is easier pre kids or when you&#8217;re kids are 10+.  Ask anyone who has kids in the 0-8 ranges what life is like if you want to be a &#8220;present&#8221; father or mother.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not ageist and have backed plenty of people in their 30&#8242;s / 40&#8242;s.  In fact, some of these have been our most successful investments.  But I&#8217;m certain it crosses the mind of most investors as they consider new investments.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Suster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Suster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the case.  We weren&#039;t ready to hire someone full time and were willing to wait.  I convinced my partners to give the guy a trial and they agreed.  Opportunity opened but he didn&#039;t take it.

When he passed we didn&#039;t try to pursue the &quot;try before you buy&quot; approach.  We waited as per the original plan, went through the standard recruiting process, chose a candidate and hired him.  We&#039;re delighted.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not the case.  We weren&#8217;t ready to hire someone full time and were willing to wait.  I convinced my partners to give the guy a trial and they agreed.  Opportunity opened but he didn&#8217;t take it.</p>
<p>When he passed we didn&#8217;t try to pursue the &#8220;try before you buy&#8221; approach.  We waited as per the original plan, went through the standard recruiting process, chose a candidate and hired him.  We&#8217;re delighted.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Suster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Suster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, but unfortunately I find most &quot;analysis&quot; into these sort of topics flawed, too.  It is often the opinion of a researcher who bends the data to say what he/she wants to prove.  I don&#039;t believe you can quantify stuff like this.  Each person can draw from empirical data to try and draw their own conclusions.

I know in VC we try to do this with our own past portfolios.  But I believe strongly that this leads to the &quot;narrative fallacy&quot; described by Taleb in The Black Swam.  A priori, I reject any analysis paralysis into this topic as purely falling into the narrative fallacy trap.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, but unfortunately I find most &#8220;analysis&#8221; into these sort of topics flawed, too.  It is often the opinion of a researcher who bends the data to say what he/she wants to prove.  I don&#8217;t believe you can quantify stuff like this.  Each person can draw from empirical data to try and draw their own conclusions.</p>
<p>I know in VC we try to do this with our own past portfolios.  But I believe strongly that this leads to the &#8220;narrative fallacy&#8221; described by Taleb in The Black Swam.  A priori, I reject any analysis paralysis into this topic as purely falling into the narrative fallacy trap.</p>
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		<title>By: David Bonifacio</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills-2/comment-page-1#comment-1536</link>
		<dc:creator>David Bonifacio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post Mark! Learned a lot. I especially like the theme of matching a &quot;great idea&quot; with commitment.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post Mark! Learned a lot. I especially like the theme of matching a &#8220;great idea&#8221; with commitment.</p>
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