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		<title>Hiring via API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is easy for a team of developers to start a startup right now. Indeed, many are. There are now over a hundred developers in each new Y Combinator class! These are people that could otherwise be working at your company.
Why would someone start their own company rather than joining yours?  It isn’t because they are likely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/08/hiring-via-api/</link>
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		<title>YC: The new grad school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been interested in starting companies. Ten years ago I was an undergrad at Penn State.  I was told by professors, my parents &#038; the press that the best way to start a company was to go to graduate school, become an expert in your field and start a company with a classmate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/04/yc-the-new-grad-school/</link>
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		<title>Sincerely Inc.  My new startup!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m extremely excited to announce my new company Sincerely today.  We are focused on making it easy to send real physical photos from your mobile phone.  Simple vision. Huge market.
I&#8217;m very excited to be working on this company with former YC classmate and Xobni teammate Bryan Kennedy.  I&#8217;m also blessed to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/04/sincerely-inc-my-new-startup/</link>
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		<title>Startup Success Demands Close Collaboration &#8211; Revisited  3.5 years later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I originally published the following blog post on the Xobni company blog on September 18, 2006.  
That was over 3 and half years ago. Xobni was still based in Cambridge, MA, my cofounder and I were still living on hot pockets and chips ahoy cookies, and we were sharing a bedroom in a friend&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2010/05/startup-success-demands-close-collaboration-revisited-3-5-years-later/</link>
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		<title>Xobni&#8217;s 5 stages of growth &amp; 5 pivots (preso from web 2.0 expo)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of presenting twice with the leaders of the lean startup movement Steve Blank and Eric Ries.  They&#8217;ve started a startup movement I&#8217;m a very big fan of.  If you aren&#8217;t familiar with their work, I&#8217;d recommend reading their blogs.  To concisely describe this movement we&#8217;re calling &#8220;lean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2010/05/xobnis-5-stages-of-growth-5-pivots-preso-from-web-2-0-expo/</link>
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		<title>Freemium ain&#8217;t new.  It is just a new word.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke at the Freemium Summit in San Francisco.  The speaker line-up was full of great companies executing on freemium models in the consumer and enterprise space:  companies like Dropbox, Automattic,  and MailChimp.  I was asked to speak as part of the Freemium for Enterprise portion of the program.
Below are my slides from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2010/03/freemium-aint-new-it-is-just-a-new-word/</link>
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		<title>Social Networks, The Monkey Sphere, and Moore&#8217;s Law of Human Relationships</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2010/02/social-networks-the-monkey-sphere-and-moores-law-of-human-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Follow the Sales Guys</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2010/01/follow-the-sales-guys/</link>
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		<title>The 4 Metrics of User Acquisition and the Customer Bulls Eye</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2009/12/the-4-metrics-of-user-acquisition-and-the-customer-bull%e2%80%99s-eye/</link>
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		<title>Who will win Tim Ferriss&#8217;s Business Competition? (and the need for a Z Combinator program)</title>
		<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>
		<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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