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		<title>State Sponsored Innovation FAILS Without an Existential Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel&#8217;s National Review article on the decline of innovation in 1 sentence. America / Western Civ can no longer innovate because it has no internal or external enemies, only threat of annihilation can overcome human nature&#8217;s aversion to the &#8230; <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/10/state-sponsored-innovation-fails-without-an-existential-threat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/10/state-sponsored-innovation-fails-without-an-existential-threat/</link>
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		<title>Building an Online Startup in 3 Easy Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obsess over these goals and nothing else, and you won't need a business plan, because instead you'll be building a business, and then you can raise money at much more attractive valuations (or just raise it, period), after you've proved out product-market fit and sales. <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/03/building-an-online-startup-in-3-easy-steps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/03/building-an-online-startup-in-3-easy-steps/</link>
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		<title>What(son) Happened to Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is getting paid so much by a market where humans do all the search. Will it recognize that technology has just moved on?  <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/02/whatson-happened-to-google/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2011/02/whatson-happened-to-google/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Top 14 Websites Worldwide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The top 14 Google Domains, ranked by the number of root domains linking to each.

<ul>
<ol>Google.com</ol>
<ol>Google.de</ol>
<ol>Google.co.jp</ol></ul> <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2010/12/googles-top-14-websites-worldwide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2010/12/googles-top-14-websites-worldwide/</link>
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		<title>Publishing is a tough biz&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Circulation exceeded five hundred thousand in every issue in 1954, rose to six hundred thousand the following year, and climbed steadily through most of its history (to more than three million a week in 2009). It quickly established itself as &#8230; <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2010/07/publishing-is-a-tough-biz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2010/07/publishing-is-a-tough-biz/</link>
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		<title>Bit.ly versus Goo.gl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[bit.ly is a URL shortener from an NYC startup incubator called betaworks. Goo.gl is a competitor started by guess-who. How will the shortener impact Bit.ly? <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/12/bit-ly-versus-goo-gl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/12/bit-ly-versus-goo-gl/</link>
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		<title>Borrowed From The Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett and the Business of Life &#8211; Alice Schroeder /via @HuffingtonPost Although average wages in the United States had risen only 0.6 percent a year since 1998 and consumer confidence had been declining steadily, GDP had risen 2.6 percent &#8230; <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/12/borrowed-from-the-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/12/borrowed-from-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Free Product Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[gr3m Attention NYC-area startups. Have: 1 entrepreneur who&#8217;s launched web products in e-commerce, ad tech and social networking; loves giving web startups feedback, Steven Blank&#8217;s customer development / lean startup approach (wikipedia, big deck, small deck, blog, book, course) helping &#8230; <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/05/free-product-feedback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/05/free-product-feedback/</link>
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		<title>LunchMarket.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moriza Lunches with folks who have lots of social authority are frequently auctioned for charity. Does a long-tail lunch market exist? I want a long-tail auction site for lunches that donates all proceeds after expenses to charity. An individual willing &#8230; <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/04/lunchmarketcom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/04/lunchmarketcom/</link>
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		<title>Retention Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tech entrepreneurs who dream of launching "the next Google" should consider customer retention, a largely untapped goldmine for search stakeholders (platform, consumers, and merchants). <a href="http://arsblog.com/blog/2009/01/retention-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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