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		<title>Social Networks, The Monkey Sphere, and Moore&#8217;s Law of Human Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas I did an interview with the SF Chronicle for an article titled  Year in Review: Social networks come of age by Benny Evangalista.  Benny and I had a conversation about social networks and how far they have come. In the article he conjectures that social networks are here to stay, as is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Sales Guys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to build the next big personal productivity application, communication platform or X?  Follow those that have the most to gain from it.
With any new technology, the users on the forward edge of a trend are the people who stand to benefit most.
Follow the sales guys
Those that benefit most from improvements in personal productivity are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 Metrics of User Acquisition and the Customer Bulls Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the outsider it may appear that 100% of Xobni’s engineering effort is focused on the development of our Outlook plugin. Surprisingly, this is far from true.  Anybody who has operated a software company will tell you there is a lot of engineering effort required to turn a product into a business: billing infrastructure, bug [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who will win Tim Ferriss&#8217;s Business Competition? (and the need for a Z Combinator program)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/12/who-will-win-tim-ferrisss-business-competition-and-the-need-for-a-z-combinator-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Tim Ferriss and Shopify announced a $100k business competition.  They will award a $100,000 prize to a new company that has the highest two months of consecutive revenue within the next six months.  I immediately thought – can I predict the type of business that will win this competition?  Who will be the entrepreneur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No one cares about your stupid little startup &#8211; 5 tips to make them care</title>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/12/no-one-cares-about-your-stupid-little-startup-5-tips-to-make-them-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Sutherland Gold&#8217;s PR Bootcamp in October 2009.
The title of this post &#8220;No one cares about your stupid little startup&#8221; was a message I learned in the earliest days of Xobni during a phone call with SiteAdvisor and Hunch founder Chris Dixon.   To this day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our 3rd Revenue Line in 4 months</title>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/11/our-3rd-business-model-in-4-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to write about tonight’s announcement because it is a little bit nostalgic for me – tonight we launched our Salesforce extension, which is a premium service that connects Xobni (and Outlook) to Salesforce.com
I’m proud of the team for launching three business models in the last 4 months (if you didn’t see the other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Starting Is The Hardest Part</title>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/11/starting-is-the-hardest-part/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/11/starting-is-the-hardest-part/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I completely ruptured my right Achillies tendon.  I will be spending the next 3 months doing very little other than sitting behind a computer, book, or tv (likely in that order).  So, it happens to be a perfect time to start a new project: this blog.
I’ve been meaning to start a [...]]]></description>
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