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		<title>On Sales and Selling &#8211; By Ben Stein</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/05/04/on-sales-and-selling-by-ben-stein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sales Profession: Attention Must Still Be Paid

By BEN STEIN
Published: April 25, 2009
ASIDE from some gardening and baby-sitting in my neighborhood when I was a child, my first summer job was in the summer of 1962, just before my first year of college. It was at Shoe Giant, a large discount shoe store in Langley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twit Store Welcomes Twitter Based Names, Services, Apps Listings</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/05/03/twit-store-welcomes-twitter-based-names-services-apps-listings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 12:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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Twit Store welcomes Twitter based names, services, apps listings
Twitter platform offers online and offline entrepreneurs a novel way to connect with potential customers in ways that few communication mediums can. I believe, Twitter has ways to go before it becomes a dominant form of instant communication and search portal. The time is now to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garment Valet &#8211; A Business Case Study</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/17/garment-valet-a-business-case-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garment Valet &#8211; A Business Case Study
By Rob Walker (NYT)
The story of the young company is a reminder that entrepreneurship often depends more on successful execution than radical reinvention.
It’s easy to draw despondent conclusions from the economic headlines. For instance, if you were thinking of starting a laundry-and-dry-cleaning business that requires consumers to pay for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Traits That Separate the Achievers From the Wannabes</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/16/six-traits-that-separate-the-achievers-from-the-wannabes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[linda tischler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six Traits That Separate the Achievers From the Wannabes
Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a social entrepreneurship funder which has dispensed over $27M to projects such as City Year and Teach for America, says the people who make things happen share certain common traits.
Each year Echoing Green vets about 1000 ideas to come up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Williams on What&#8217;s Behind Twitter&#8217;s Explosive Growth</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/30/evan-williams-on-whats-behind-twitters-explosive-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<title>Despite Economy, New Startups Retain Optimism</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/20/despite-economy-new-startups-retain-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. &#8211; With many established businesses just trying to survive, you might not think it&#8217;s a good time to start a company, let alone ask anyone for money to help get it rolling. But if a series of presentations from fledgling Silicon Valley startups is any indication, innovation is not braking for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Cannot be an Entrepreneur if&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/19/one-cannot-be-an-entrepreneur-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you deceiving yourself?

This question is 100% directed to those self appointed entrepreneurs. You see, if there was an institution which gave away entrepreneurial credentials upon completing the required education, it would be a nurturing experience.
Alas, other than gaining a crash course in business management, MBA or acquiring some business skill, there is no agency, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Click Fraud &#8211; Costing Advertisers Billions. Why?</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/02/25/click-fraud-costing-advertisers-billions-why/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/02/25/click-fraud-costing-advertisers-billions-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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PPC (Pay per click) fraud costs advertisers billions of dollars in wasteful marketing budget. The irony is, the big guys are NOT doing enough (in spite of their claims) to stop this. I&#8217;d know how!
I received a message from this dude in India, asking me to visit his blog and click on his ads and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before You Go For Your First Million</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/02/09/before-you-go-for-your-first-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Bits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you shoot for your first million, I have a very valuable piece of advise for you. If you choose to ignore it or use it practically (as in taking specific action,) it is fine with me. But, it is important for me to let you know that this is an important part of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a Business Idea? Need Funds?</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/01/02/got-a-business-idea-need-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/01/02/got-a-business-idea-need-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking funds for your business is one of the most important challenges any budding entrepreneur can face. Seeking funds from the wrong crowd can be even more challenging without going through the feeling of guilt, as if you need funds to get yourself bailed out of jail. Most individuals are not bankers or business incubators.
Seeking [...]]]></description>
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