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		<title>What to do about that first round of funding?</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/what-to-do-about-that-first-round-of-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are a co-founder. You and your team are committed to making it happen. Now you need money. What comes next has profound implications for your company. If you have some interested early stage investors lined up the critical question is: &#8220;How much of the company to we give up for $XX?&#8221; If these are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=100&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allocating stock options in early-stage companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much are you worth? In a startup environment, that question is never just about salary and 401(k) perks; it&#8217;s about how much of the company you deserve given your position and your performance. @TheFunded via Twitter posted this link. It provides some comps to use when you&#8217;re negotiating with your boss or trying to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=86&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting the VC industry &#8211; a letter to my Sentors and Congresswoman</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/supporting-the-vc-industry-my-letter-to-my-sentors-and-congresswoman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Senator Udall, Senator Bennet, Congresswoman DeGette: There is threat to my livelihood as a high tech entrepreneur in Colorado. Risk capital &#8212; the life blood of small companies so vital to Colorado&#8217;s economy &#8212; is facing onerous and unproductive regulation from the Treasury Department. I recognize that Washington&#8217;s tendency is to over-regulate in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=77&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VC and founder stereotypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to take a few minutes to explore the cartoonishly pejorative stereotypes that have recently popped up on the web. The embedded slideshows below offer a comical glimpse into the worst behaviors on each side of the table. View more documents from vcobserver. View more presentations from Chris Yeh. Constructive advice for those pitching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=28&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to No</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/getting-to-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In business (and in life) people are often a obsessed with getting to “yes:” an outcome many view as unequivocally positive and helpful to their goals. I submit that the right answer to most business questions is “no” and the more quickly one can recognize which paths are strategic dead ends, the better. The trouble [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=25&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nate Lewis’s talk on energy &#8212; solar is the planet’s only hope</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/nate-lewis-on-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m attending day one of a packed conference at CU Boulder: the Workshop on Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity and Fuels. Nate Lewis (whose paper everyone needs to read) gave last night’s keynote address. Nate is a very clear thinker and one of those rare scientists who is able to speak to power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=22&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Stuff</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-right-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX, a PayPal founder) is determination personified. His attitude and commitment embody what it takes to get a startup off the ground. In his case, “getting off the ground” is literal: SpaceX is developing the first privately-funded, liquid-fueled rocket transportation business. They recently suffered their third consecutive in-flight catastrophic failure. From [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=19&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why uniqueness is a dangerous idea &#8212; A discussion of substitutes and their impact</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/uniqueness-is-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All too often one will hear an entrepreneur or an inventor say something like, “We don’t have any competition. What we are doing is unique.” At the level in the market where money is made, statements like this are not just wrong, they endanger capital and jobs. Let’s look at two ways smart people arrive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=15&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs&#8217;s tail is longer than yours</title>
		<link>http://techstrategy.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/steve_jobs_tail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Rentschler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the press writes about other things, Apple has quietly engineered a revolution in how we buy and interact with software. This ought to sound familiar. Sub “software” for “music,” and roll back the clock to 2001: the introduction of the iPod and iTunes&#8230; The software market has just been transformed. Apple’s 2.0 software release [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techstrategy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8902471&amp;post=7&amp;subd=techstrategy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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