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		<title>Entrepreneur Showcase: How Lynn Started Her Tea Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to showcase an entrepreneur today I met almost a year ago here at Plan to Start, that has a really amazing story of how she founded her company: a tea product for women.  She became a fan of our blogs, and started reading them constantly.  She reached out to me with some business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Startup Bubble is Coming for Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked by a magazine rack of my favorite business magazines yesterday, one&#8217;s I had been reading since I was 16.  Usually, they&#8217;re great stimulation for me about leadership, management, innovation, and creativity.  I read them, and I feel like a better business owner.  But not anymore&#8230; Tech startups are a fad all over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Mission Statement that Doesn&#8217;t Suck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mission statement is probably the fewest, yet most powerful sentences you could ever write about your business.  It describes your business&#8217;s purpose for existence, and will be used for years when referencing your business. Here are some great tips, questions to ask yourself, and examples to help you write a mission statement that won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Become a Champion of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned alot about leading change in this short little life of mine.  What I have learned is&#8230;change is the most feared of all things by the general population.  If you think about it, it&#8217;s true.  We are always disturbed by change.  Whether someone dies, someone is born, an unexpected event happens in our life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Cool Things About Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought today we would make a boring Tuesday a little more interesting (or Wednesday, whatever day you end up reading this).  Let&#8217;s laugh at ourselves today, and remember why us entrepreneurs&#8230;are awesome, in 7 different ways. We are always on time, and on schedule.  We&#8217;re the most punctuational people you will ever meet. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Joining Plan to Start Fulltime as CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had made a decision in the beginning of all this, to be completely transparent with all of you; about my own happenings, struggles, and triumphs with our companies.  I wanted to do this, not to brag or complain about things, but so you guys got real information&#8211;and not filtered information you get everywhere else.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Raise Money From Investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A step by step guide for how to raise money from investors for your startup.  This is the biggest guide I&#8217;m ever going to write for you guys.  Enjoy it.  Learn from it.  Love it or hate it, whichever floats your boat today. This is also written from the entrepreneur&#8217;s side of the table, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Really Need a Patent?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patent agent gives us an insider’s perspective into the world of patents and intellectual property&#8230;and exposes the risks with filing a patent.  Guest post by Brad Fach. New inventors often ask me &#8220;do I need a patent&#8221;.  It pains me to write this as someone who makes a living writing and filing patents, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Lessons On Recruiting Talent As A New Entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shifting from a solopreneur or small business to the mindset of a growing company is not easy.  Out of all the lessons I found the most valuable, and the most challenging, was ironically&#8230;not the money, or the business model.  It was recruiting and retaining talent.  It seems really funny to think of something like that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Characteristics of Real Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real entrepreneurs exist outside of Silicon Valley, outside of Instagram&#8217;s acquisition, outside of Facebook&#8217;s IPO.  Stories like those are rare, about 1 in a billion, yet they are the only one&#8217;s making the news.  I am really, really sick too of how the media is portraying stories like these as &#8220;real entrepreneurs&#8221;. What is [...]]]></description>
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