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		<title>Improvised Entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a business leader, you often have to make snap decisions while walking and chewing bubble gum. It&#8217;s not always easy, but it&#8217;s part of the job. Also, it&#8217;s a skill you can improve. How? Take an improv class! Yea, I know. You&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a comedian. Why should I take [...]


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		<title>Facebook Like Fraud and Like Farms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time. Give spammers an easy way to reach millions, and they&#8217;ll do it. It is already pretty easy for a motivated spammer to commit Like Fraud: the act of creating a Facebook Like button for a URL other than the one on which users click. In a similar manner, [...]


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<li><a href='http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/facebook-marketing-can-help-in-unexpected-ways.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Facebook Marketing Can Help in Unexpected Ways'>Facebook Marketing Can Help in Unexpected Ways</a></li>
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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/facebook-like-fraud-and-like-farms.html</link>
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		<title>A Scrappy Entrepreneur&#8217;s Free Business Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a scrappy entrepreneur means being financially efficient. I saw an example of that when I met Joe Greenstein, the CEO &#038; co-founder of Flixster. When he handed me his card, I noticed the design looked oddly familiar. Then I flipped it around. On the back of the card were the words: &#8220;Business Cards are [...]


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<li><a href='http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/three-reasons-to-become-an-entrepreneur.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Three Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur'>Three Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur</a></li>
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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/a-scrappy-entrepreneurs-free-business-cards.html</link>
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		<title>Evan Williams, The Man Behind Digital Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Simplicity is powerful.&#8221;- E. Williams What a lucky duck. Evan Williams, I mean. He was at the front of two digital publishing revolutions: blogging and microblogging (and almost at podcasting). The way he developed his businesses and products is fascinating, for entrepreneurs, product managers, and 21st century writers alike. Here are some highlights that I [...]


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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/evan-williams-the-man-behind-digital-publishing.html</link>
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		<title>A Funny Resignation Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why quit quietly when you can quit hilariously? Here is a hilarious resignation letter that was written by a friend of mine. The letter stirred such a ruckus that HR circulated it amongst their team, like one of those funny emails you forward to friends. Here is that letter: Dear Company Name, After four wonderful [...]


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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/a-funny-resignation-letter.html</link>
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		<title>6 Ways Your Office is Literally Killing You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now for some Friday fun. Jerry Seinfeld will love this. Since the 1970s, energy conservation strides led to sealed office windows, which has led to recycled air, which has resulted in polluted &#038; germ-infested, yet energy-conservative office air. This is known as the Sick Building Syndrome. Delicious. But wait, there&#8217;s more. Freelance writer Kathy Benjamin [...]


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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/6-ways-your-office-is-literally-killing-you.html</link>
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		<title>Why Entrepreneurs Make Good Product Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes a good product manager? I once asked this question to a number of product executives. Several of them gave me an answer like this: A good product manager thinks like a CEO. What does this mean? It means you know all aspects of the product &#8211; its market, its customers, its operations, its [...]


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		<link>http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/why-entrepreneurs-make-good-product-managers.html</link>
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		<title>The Emotional Adoption Curve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard of the Technology Adoption Curve, yea? In Marty Cagan&#8217;s book Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love, he references an insightful talk he had with Jeff Bonforte, then a VP at Yahoo! and now the CEO of Xobni. Bonforte has a slightly different view of Geoffrey Moore&#8217;s Technology Adoption Curve. Instead of looking [...]


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