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		<title>Just Published on ReadWriteWeb: 10 Principles For Not Killing Your Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Boutin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ReadWriteStart, the entrepreneur's channel of ReadWriteWeb, nicely published an article I wrote for them on Principles For Not Killing Your Startup.

With the new wave of entrepreneurs brought about by the financial crisis, I suspect the mortality rate of startups is at an all-time high. I didn't find robust data to back my observation yet, but I did come across a page that points out that, before the financial crisis, the chances were six in a million that an idea for a high-tech business eventually would become a successful company that goes public, that a venture capitalist financed only six out of every 1,000 business plans received each year, and that bankruptcies occured for 60% of the high-tech startup companies that succeeded in getting venture capital. Wow. Persistence is paramount.]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneur&#8217;s Must-Have: a Masterplan and To-Do List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Boutin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience helping entrepreneurs, the most important success driver of any business founder is the capacity to know their success drivers, and keep everything they do tied to those. So being able to keep one’s eyes on the prize and not get lost in the weeds is the top quality any good entrepreneur should cultivate. In this age of information overload, however, requests are being thrown at us from every direction, and in that flood it can quickly become difficult to discern what matters from the rest.

Luckily, whatever problems technology throws at us, the human brain can still solve.

One method to solve the focus problem is something I recommend to the entrepreneurs I work with in my practice: create two living documents to keep you on track.]]></description>
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