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		<title>From The Boat That Rocked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quentin: So&#8230; expelled? &#8216;Young&#8217; Carl: That&#8217;s right. Quentin: What for? &#8216;Young&#8217; Carl: I suppose smoking was the clincher. Quentin: Drugs or cigarettes? &#8216;Young&#8217; Carl: Well, both. Quentin: Well done! Proud of you. So your mum sent you here in the hope that a little bracing sea air would sort you out? &#8216;Young&#8217; Carl: Something like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1896&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008, good old slow times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Key Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be so good they can&#8217;t ignore you In Italiano In English http://t.co/p2ib3nc<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1887&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing video game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<title>Anything is Possible (in a Startup)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Charlie O&#8217;Donnell I know you&#8217;re out there. I can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms.  I know that you&#8217;re afraid.  Google is.  You&#8217;re afraid of startups. You&#8217;re afraid of change.  You’re afraid that students and young people are going to realize that you’re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1875&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a pirate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs. Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1871&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Key Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live&#8230;that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1869&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tucker tries buttsex; hilarity does not ensue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TuckerMax I spent the summer between my 2nd and 3rd year of college suckling on the parental teat in South Florida. It was the absolute prime of my “do anything to get laid” phase. I was recently freed from a 4-year long-distance relationship that began in high school and I wanted nothing more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1865&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boys Rules, Girls Lose</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another brilliantly awesome post by Steve Blank &#8211; this guy rules. My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working-world with summer jobs. As they’ve grown older, they’ve heard their parent’s advice about women in the workforce. This post is not advice nor is it a recommendation of what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1862&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubble Blinders: The Untold Story of the Search Business Model</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/08/29/bubble-blinders-the-untold-story-of-the-search-business-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting tale on the evolution of the Search Business Model, interesting for whoever is in the technology space, ineresting, in fact for everybody living in this century. The article, originally published on TechCrunch, is from Ali Partovi, an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike, acquired by Myspace in 2009, and previously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1859&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bowling pin strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like to read Chris Dixon&#8217;s blog and I wish he posted more often. Sometimes his insights are really awesome, others are nothing new, but all the times you can be certain that he&#8217;s speaking his mind out, giving you his very personal unadulterated view. And that is what it is. Here&#8217;s a recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1856&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve got a Hunch for local stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on and following the local and travel space for about 4 years now. And although I have yet to make a dent in the market I am trying to break &#8211; I&#8217;ll write a long post at some point on why &#8211; I think I understand the space decently and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1852&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be weak</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extract from an article by Cyan Banister on TechCrunch. In the video below she interviews Angelo Sotira, founder of deviantArt. I think you know why I selected it. Deviant recently passed the milestone of their 100 millionth submission or “Deviation” as they’re called. I think that’s pretty cool, but what I think is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1846&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Key Words</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/23/key-words-31/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be a machine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1841&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published on Steve Blank&#8217;s blog As a founder I fought with VC’s over vesting as they brought in a new CEO and walked me out the door. As a board member I negotiated with founding CEO’s over vesting when I thought it was their time to go. At best this is an argument where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1838&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The insanity of Angel Investors</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/19/the-insanity-of-angel-investors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published on Doug Richard&#8217;s School for Startups The first outside money an entrepreneur gets usually comes from friends and friends of friends. Why? Because they know the entrepreneur personally and they know where he lives.  They are the father that buys a company a new computer system for video editing, the sister who gives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1834&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a chance on yourself</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/12/take-a-chance-on-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published on FeldThoughts One of the side benefits of blogging is the various inspiring emails I get from readers about different topics.  I got a great one yesterday that I thought addressed the question of “Why am I having so much fun with challenges in my personal life and at the same time am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1824&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social networking and the change of interactions</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/07/social-networking-and-the-change-of-interactions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published on Business Insider Google is preparing another attempt to crack the social networking world owned by Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Twitter. Why is Google traveling down this path once again? Aren&#8217;t the failures of Dodgeball, Orkut, Jaiku, Buzz, Wave, etc. enough for Google to realize that it just doesn&#8217;t understand social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1807&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with a robot</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/06/interview-with-a-robot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this amazing video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewaterrat.com&amp;blog=7104161&amp;post=1801&amp;subd=thewaterrat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avianova</title>
		<link>http://thewaterrat.com/2010/07/05/avianova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Favale</dc:creator>
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