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		<title>Digital Ministry US - Start Ups News Shares</title>
		<link>http://www.digitalministry.com</link>
		<description>Digital Ministry</description>
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			<title>SaaS Reality Check: Freemium is NOT a Business Model</title>
			<link>http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/saas-reality-check-freemium-is-not-a-business-model/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+undertheradarblog%2Fmjce+%28UnderTheRadar%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Freemium is not a business model. It's an effective go to market strategy. And for any SaaS startup filling their pipeline and setting revenue goals for 2010 - it's imperative this is drilled into your marketing and sales teams DNA. Friend and SaaS Guru, Lincoln Murphy of 16 Ventures  a software sales and marketing consultancy recently published The Reality of Freemium in SaaS on the back of his other paper,  SaaS Revenue Streams.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Digital Ministry</dc:creator>
			<dc:date>2010-01-27</dc:date>
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			<title>Dave McClure To Launch Early Stage Venture Fund</title>
			<link>http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/dave-mcclure-to-launch-early-stage-venture-fund/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)</link>
			<guid>http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11/dave-mcclure-to-launch-early-stage-venture-fund/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[Dave McClure has been investing in early stage startups for years. He is a direct angel investor in a half dozen or more startups, including Mint, Simply Hired, Mashery, TeachStreet and others. And he has invested in dozens more through fbFund, a $10 million Facebook investment fund backed by Founders Fund and Accel, and and FF Angel, a Founders Fund early stage fund.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Digital Ministry</dc:creator>
			<dc:date>2010-01-12</dc:date>
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			<title>Why Did Skype Succeed And Joost Fail</title>
			<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/why-did-skype-succeed-and-joost-fail-2009-12</link>
			<guid>http://www.businessinsider.com/why-did-skype-succeed-and-joost-fail-2009-12</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[Skype and Joost are interesting companies to compare  they are about as close as you can get to one of those sociological studies that track identical twins who are raised separately.  Skype was a spectacular success.   Joost never got traction and was shut down.  Both were started by Nicklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, two of the great technology visionaries of our time.  Both were big ideas, trying to disrupt giant, slow-moving incumbents. There are likely multiple reasons for their different outcomes.  Joost had day-to-day management that didnt have much startup experience.  The P2P technology that required a download made sense for chat but not for video.  The companies were started at different times:  Skype when there was far less investment in  and there competition among  consumer internet products.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Digital Ministry</dc:creator>
			<dc:date>2009-12-09</dc:date>
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			<title>Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company</title>
			<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/10/24/live-blogging-mark-zuckerbergs-talk-at-startup-school/</link>
			<guid>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/10/24/live-blogging-mark-zuckerbergs-talk-at-startup-school/</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[Im live-blogging fromStartup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session and I've embedded a short clip from the talk below. This is paraphrased.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Digital Ministry</dc:creator>
			<dc:date>2009-10-26</dc:date>
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			<title>Networking for the Shy Entrepreneur </title>
			<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business/smallbusiness/23toolkit.html?_r=1</link>
			<guid>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business/smallbusiness/23toolkit.html?_r=1</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[You know you have to do it. You have been meaning to do it. And now that the recession is here, you wish had done it sooner. But networking, especially if you are never going to be described as outgoing, can be extremely difficult.  Still, by putting off any real effort to network, you have not used the opportunity to create mutually beneficial business relationships. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Digital Ministry</dc:creator>
			<dc:date>2009-06-25</dc:date>
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