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	<description>I want you to be smart in the same way—but for what is right—using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you'll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior.</description>
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		<title>Software Startup Strategy</title>
		<link>http://joshcolter.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/software-startup-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Start by writing software for smaller companies, because it&#8217;s easier to sell to them. It&#8217;s worth so much to sell stuff to big companies that the people selling them the crap they currently use spend a lot of time and money to do it. And while you can outhack Oracle with one frontal lobe tied [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joshcolter.wordpress.com&blog=340849&post=262&subd=joshcolter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom from 37Signals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Fried @ Big Omaha 2009 from Big Omaha on Vimeo.
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		<title>Quote: We would rather have 40% of&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t want to own 100% of many things because the collaboration has been enormously beneficial&#8230;We would rather have 40% of a big success than 100% of a failure.&#8221;
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		<title>Today I am Friends with a Celebrity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Smiley, a friend from our small group and local southsider, was featured on the front page of the indystar today (he&#8217;s on the left in the picture above).  Nice work, Andrew!
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		<title>Quote: Too many men I have known live lives seeking&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many men I have known live lives seeking fame, fortune, recognition and rewards, comfort and meterial things, and financial security.  Their priorities begin there, and &#8211; since those things don&#8217;t tend to leave time for anything else &#8211; they usually end there.
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		<title>Bailout Costs vs. Historical Event Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Quote: Running a start-up is like&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://joshcolter.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/quote-running-a-start-up-is-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly.  But working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
- Paul Graham, Y Combinator founder and Start-up guru
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		<title>Fear and Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://joshcolter.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/fear-and-swine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.  In 2005, 652,091 people died of heart disease.  Moreover, approximately 37% of adults reported having two or more of six risk factors for heart disease and stroke (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joshcolter.wordpress.com&blog=340849&post=234&subd=joshcolter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Forecast or Not to Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forecasting.  This word stirs in me a mix of love and hate feelings.  Early on in my career I had an abnormal fixation with excel spreadsheets.  Business to me was about pro forma statements and linked excel formulas.  I can still create a mean worksheet, but my perspective has changed.
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		<title>Find of the Day: Passpack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I have a knack for finding helpful things online.  It started with an emailed link from time to time to my partners.  Now we have taken to crowning the really good finds with the term &#8220;Find of the day&#8221; and made the discoveries into something of a game or contest among us.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joshcolter.wordpress.com&blog=340849&post=226&subd=joshcolter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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