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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s never as scary or as hard as you thought&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2010/03/09/its-never-as-scary-or-as-hard-as-you-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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I had breakfast with my buddy and great entrepreneur, Jason from Jackthreads yesterday.  I&#8217;ve written about Jason and his entrpreneurial path before, so I don&#8217;t need to rehash the story, but needless to say it&#8217;s been a lot of fun watching both he and Jackthreads grow over the last 3 years.  The last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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There&#8217;s been some anxious moments the last few weeks in the startup  I&#8217;m working on.  It&#8217;s the typical fears that you deal with in this stage of a startup (basically, what if we fail?).  I&#8217;ve been deep down this fearful road before, but this time it feels different.  I&#8217;ve been able to watch and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How far are you willing to go?</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/12/01/how-far-are-you-willing-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danputt1</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of having front row seats to watch my friend Jason develop his business Jackthreads (check it out, it&#8217;s a private shopping community) over the last 4 or so years.  Things are going very well for Jason now as his membership and revenue numbers continue to explode month over month.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Make meaning not movement&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/10/07/make-meaning-not-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a discussion about entrepreneurship yesterday with a friend and I mentioned that I can see one of entrepreneurs at one of the startups I&#8217;m consulting for really starting to get anxious about money.  I mentioned that I could see their anxiety manifesting itself in pushing for more&#8230;more time, more phone calls, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no regrets about going with my gut.</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/09/14/no-regrets-about-going-with-my-gut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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So I was watching the Techcrunch 50 tonight live on ustream while waiting for Julie to get off the phone before watching Mad Men, and just as I was about to switch it off, I saw a name I recognized.  The upcoming presenter was a company called Yext, a company I knew.  My jaw hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tinker don&#8217;t perfect</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/09/14/tinker-dont-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve spoken to several entrepreneurs this week as well as spent some time thinking about my past endeavors, and one thought keeps popping in my head: &#8220;tinker, don&#8217;t perfect.&#8221;   When I look back on some things that I&#8217;ve worked on, some of them things I REALLY was  passionate about (have some thoughts about passion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lessons in failure</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/09/10/lessons-in-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed Fred Wilson&#8217;s post this morning on failure (inspired by Obama&#8217;s speech to students a few days ago).  He wrote this, quoting from Obama:
you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time

He goes on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connect the dots looking back&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/09/01/connect-the-dots-looking-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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I was listening to a Venture Voice with&#160; Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com this morning, and I had a thought about connecting the dots.&#160; When asked how or why he started meetup.com, he talked about being in NYC in 9/11 and the need for in person interactions inspired him, but the thing that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building for the long term</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/08/30/building-for-the-long-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danputt1</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m a big Zappos.com fan.  I think every pair of shoes I currently own came via Zappos.com.  Their selection and service are amazing, and they make the shoe buying experience very simple.  But the thing I really love about Zappos (which I know has been discussed to death on the internet), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times article on unemployment leading to entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://danputt.com/2009/08/25/ny-times-article-on-unemployment-leading-to-entrepreneurship/</link>
		<comments>http://danputt.com/2009/08/25/ny-times-article-on-unemployment-leading-to-entrepreneurship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>danputt1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this article in yesterday&#8217;s times about people who have become entrepreneurs after losing their jobs in the most recent recession.  I guess this is really unsurprising, and there have been numerous articles about this of late, but it&#8217;s always nice to see.  It seems with each new downturn, there is a significant upturn [...]]]></description>
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