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		<title>Blog Roundup: Discussion of TechCrunch post on the decline in VC returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch Blog Post: Ten-Year Venture Capital Returns Continue To Slide

(Source: Cambridge Associates LLC via TechCrunch; The crude annotations are mine.)
Ouch. 
There are lots of problems with this 8.4% 10-year rolling average return for venture capitalists in the US.
The big one, of course, is that when VC returns head into the 8% range, institutional investors who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/blog-roundup/blog-roundup-discussion-of-techcrunch-post-on-the-decline-in-vc-returns/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Unspoken Investor Questions Redux: Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick 15 minute video presentation of the Top 10 Unspoken Investor Questions presentation I made to the OpenBeta PitchCamp event:

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		<link>http://startupgeek.com/uncategorized/top-10-unspoken-investor-questions-redux-video/</link>
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		<title>Gale bought Questia Media last month&#8230; But why? Interesting analysis from InfoToday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, bought Questia Media, the company I co-founded in 1998.
But why did they buy it? This article from Information Today seems to analyze it pretty well:
Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition
A salient point from the article:
Barnes [Executive VP of Gale] says that HighBeam is doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/capital-valuations/gale-bought-questia-media-last-month-but-why-interesting-analysis-from-infotoday/</link>
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		<title>Product Review: Xobni Add-in for Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t difficult to define the most useful aspect of the Xobni add-in for Outlook for me: It automatically puts faces with e-mails, instantly, for people I&#8217;ve met, people I&#8217;ve never met &#8211; and, crucially &#8211; for people I&#8217;ve met just a few times or a long time ago.
For me, that is amazing. Even if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/software-reviews/product-review-xobni-add-in-for-outlook/</link>
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		<title>A good entrepreneurial CEO will automatically report on profitability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good entrepreneurial CEO will automatically report on profitability, without request or prompting.
In fact, a good CEO is focused on the numbers, despite the drama involved in starting any new company. He or she will report the numbers to the investors, other executives, and in an &#8220;open books&#8221; company, to the whole staff, without really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/startup-philosophy/a-good-entrepreneurial-ceo-will-automatically-report-on-profitability/</link>
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		<title>Questia Media acquired by Gale / Cengage Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was announced today that Gale (part of Cengage Learning) had acquired Questia Media.
I co-founded Questia Media in 1998 with Troy Williams and Justus Baird. We started the company in a studio apartment on the south side of Houston, Texas.
All three of us had been students at Rice University in the mid 90&#8217;s, had gone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/startupgeek-community/questia-media-acquired-by-gale-cengage-learning/</link>
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		<title>Recent post I like from a marketing expert and friend: 5 Reasons your customers don&#8217;t listen to you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5 Reasons your customers don’t listen to you &#124; The Invisible Marketing Blog
These are all right on target.
I always read this stuff and think, &#8220;Geez, I need to edit my websites&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s a definite sign of a useful post.
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		<link>http://startupgeek.com/blog-roundup/recent-post-i-like-from-a-marketing-expert-and-friend-5-reasons-your-customers-dont-listen-to-you/</link>
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		<title>The shift to Rich Internet Applications is revolutionary&#8230; But it can be bad for deadlines.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last 60 days have been eventful at Black Mesa Ventures and for our new GEOINTELIS online service. I haven&#8217;t had much time to blog.
We are in the middle of an industry-wide revolution in the delivery of software, moving from desktop and client/server delivery to web-based Rich Internet Applications (RIA) delivered from the cloud. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/startup-philosophy/the-shift-to-rich-internet-applications-is-revolutionary-but-it-can-be-bad-for-deadlines/</link>
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		<title>Great TechCrunch post on sales strategies in startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming back to blogging after a little holiday break, I ran across this great post by Matt Bell of Azaleos:
$0 to $20 Million: Ten Hand-to-Hand Sales Tactics
There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff here and I&#8217;d encourage anyone developing a sales and marketing strategy for an enterprise software start up to read this. There are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://startupgeek.com/sales-marketing/great-techcrunch-post-on-sales-strategies-in-startups/</link>
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		<title>Blog Roundup &#8211; A good post on why stealth mode doesn&#8217;t work&#8230; If you have a tech startup, read this!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets
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		<link>http://startupgeek.com/startup-philosophy/blog-roundup-a-good-post-on-why-stealth-mode-doesnt-work-if-you-have-a-tech-startup-ready-this/</link>
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