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		<title>Getting your business plan through screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vishal Gulati, a VC in the healthcare sector, spoke to my MBA cohort today and gave a few tips on mistakes commonly found within business plans&#8230; Competition is a good thing. Statements such as &#8220;We have no competitors&#8221; signals that either you don&#8217;t know your market or you&#8217;re making something no one wants. On market size/opportunity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Five Startups You Meet in the Deadpool&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another favorite session at SXSW 2011. Former entrepreneur, current investor and innovation community leader Charlie O&#8217;Donnell will discuss five different patterns of failure often seen in startups that don&#8217;t make it. It will cover how entrepreneurs can derisk their ideas, maintain momentum, and take advantage of opportunities early on in a company&#8217;s life cycle. Patterns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from #SXSWSmall: What We Can Learn from Small Town Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of online communities, we need to learn to behave like one. The excerpt from my favorite session at SXSW11 as follows: The business world is looking more like a small town. Strong downward economic pressures combined with advances in technology have forced rewriting the rules of business. Advances in technology have allowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SFAMA Presents: A Social Media Panel on Old Spice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another event that I had attended in August. SFAMA rounded up 4 prominent marketing experts for a panel discussion on the success of the Old Spice campaign. Here are my notes from the event&#8230; The Old Spice commercial was done tastefully&#8230; Not at the expense of women, unlike Axe. In social media, action is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls In Tech: The Fast Track of Mariam Naficy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August I attended a Girls in Tech presentation with Mariam Naficy, the founder of minted.com. Mariam is a serial entrepreneur who found an early success with eve.com shortly after graduating from business school. Here are the notes I captured from the session: On female purchase power&#8230; Women are responsible 58% of spending online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speedy Web</title>
		<link>http://appgirl.net/blog/speedy-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Google incorporating a &#8220;website speed&#8221; factor into site rankings, it has created renewed interests in rendering performance of web sites/apps. As a techie who has spent most of her career around web app delivery &#38; performance, I&#8217;d like to highlight some (known) techniques and offer a few insights. Browser-Side Optimization Steve Souder identified 14 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dilbert on Cloud Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
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		<title>Keeping the lights on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having spent years running 24&#215;7 internet-facing production systems, I find that the monitoring element of an application delivery environment is often the last item to be addressed and built outside of the application delivery architecture. As we continue to build our application delivery infrastructure in the cloud, having a good monitoring strategy will allow us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud scaling considerations</title>
		<link>http://appgirl.net/blog/cloud-scaling-considerations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon&#8217;s new Relational Database Service (RDS) has generated quite a bit of buzz as of late. This move propels Amazon forward into the application services provider in the cloud computing arena. I&#8217;ve briefly written about different types of cloud services in an earlier post and outlined differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (Saas), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology as a service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>appgirl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cloud & virtualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing concept is transforming the IT industry and shaping the IT service delivery into a pay-as-you-grow model. Here&#8217;s a whitepaper from Cisco on Cisco-powered &#8220;network clouds&#8221;. Thought I&#8217;d share some keypoints / highlights&#8230; Abstraction of physical hardware (virtualization) &#38; the ability to share common resources among users (multi-tenancy) are at the heart of cloud [...]]]></description>
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