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		<title>TIP: Balance the Stories You Create</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is little doubt that the stories we tell to ourselves have direct impact on the reality we live. If you are constantly telling yourself or to others that you can&#8217;t do this or that, you are only perpetuating your inability to do something.  Constant negativity and put-downs only get you higher walls to climb. On the other hand, you can tell yourself all day long you can do anything, but if you lack essential elements to do that thing, you might just be wasting precious energy and passion on daydreaming open doors to buildings that don&#8217;t exist. Balancing the stories we create against the constrains we face allow us to construct stories flexible enough to adjust to the unexpected and still achieve success and do that something we need or want to do.  This is a characteristic noticeable in members of successful startups and it&#8217;s worth of consideration.]]></description>
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		<title>TED&#8217;s Offspring: Should We Be Sad? Can We Do Something About IT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A possible definition of a successful offspring could be based on a linear progression measure of backwards-static-forward. If the offspring lives its life in a larger, bigger or more expanded manner than its parent, the offspring has moved farther ahead in the progression line, thus has been more successful than its parent. If the offspring lives as an identical clone of its parent, it has just stayed static, but it has moved backwards if it has achieved and experienced much less than its parent. You might find the above definition crazy, but that is what I walked away with from reading Nathan Jurgenson&#8217;s painful critique of TED&#8217;s offspring(s): Against TED. I found this piece painful because I have been following TED from the early stages. Unfortunately, this essay made me feel that TED&#8217;s offspring(s) have moved backwards.  I had to go back to my social media activity and prove that recently my appreciation for TED has diminished, without me even noticing, due to what Jurgeson points out in his essay. It feels like a big let down for some reason. I won&#8217;t extract anything from Jurgenson&#8217;s essay, but if you have followed TED or have even participated in it, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIP: Everything in Life Has a Price and Free Is NOT the Exception!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lean Startups]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[For-Protif Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read the headline that a Safari user was suing Google I honestly thought it had to be an Onion parody. But, of course not, reality has to always be more outrageous than fiction. You might have a very strong opinion one way or another with regards to this&#8230;uh&#8230;this effort to keep one&#8217;s privacy while still wanting to use a FREE product from a FOR-PROFIT corporation. I, on the other hand, feel like doing a double, hold it, a major double take. The outrage expressed by some Pinterest users when they discovered that Pinterest wasn&#8217;t as transparent as they should have been on how it is they make money generated also a major double take. But that one is for another post. From the very early stages of the &#8220;free&#8221; business model it was extraordinarily clear that free was a mechanism to move to paid. Simple and straightforward, reason why it has worked so well (FACEBOOK anyone?). Unfortunately, this business model hasn&#8217;t addressed the false expectation of ownership over their privacy by many users. Unless you are dealing with organizations like Wikipedia that have a Not-For-Profit foundation and business model and whose offerings and services have nothing to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop-up Corporation or 100+ Years Old Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a thought provoking post by Jeff Jarvis that I haven&#8217;t been able to shake off my mind since I read it: The temporary, pop-up corporation. In this post, Jeff raises good points that relate to the increasing number of IT incubators-labs and  VC-sponsored mentorship across the country, and even to the recent Obama&#8217;s administration entrepreneurship program, all of which I agree with. Jeff starts his post with this: A stat I heard repeated all over Davos: that the average lifespan of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, according to Cisco’s John Chambers. Trying to confirm that figure, I found others saying the number is less than 50. and goes on to  ask:  So what if corporations more and more become short-lived enterprises? What would that mean? Although I was still framing his question in relationship to the impact such &#8220;short-lived&#8221; enterprise life would have on the Fortune 500 list, I had to stop and think about the implications of my own efforts to encourage more and more IT startups to be born. I&#8217;m one of the many who believe that: The more tech startups we have. the better our economy will be and the more opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Talent and Do You Need it to Succeed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are very few people, dead or alive, who, like Mozart, have achieved an everlasting and transcendent legacy from just using their talents. His music still stands as an archetype of the Classical style, with no sign of that changing any time soon. There are several talented persons who have achieved success in the literary field, but few have achieved the ubiquitous influence Franz Kafka has to this day. This is particularly remarkable considering that Kafka never, ever planned to publish any of his work. Many people don&#8217;t even know what the movie The Fly is based on or truly know what the term Kafkaesque stands for, but they have certainly experienced it at one point or another one in their lives. If it hadn&#8217;t been for Max Brod, there wouldn&#8217;t be an everlasting Kafka legacy&#8230;This was rather more like an accident resulting from Kafka&#8217;s death. But what is talent, anyway? The definition seems very elusive. Meriam-Webster&#8217;s attempts to define talent include the natural endowments of a person, like in the case of Mozart, and a special often athletic, creative, or artistic aptitude, like Kafka, who was creative in his artistic aptitude. However, aptitude is a component of a competency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Have to Do What&#8217;s In Your Heart!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this via @tferriss and at 1.02 seconds, this clip needs nothing more to say. Tops any post I could ever write about this subject!!!]]></description>
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		<title>TIP: Don&#8217;t Confuse Connectivity with Friendship!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I was going to write about Friendship  and how we should stop confusing it with connectivity. As we get more saturated, social media users who truly pursue value from connections will become more sophisticated at building noise-blocking gates.  And because of that, the the next wave of technology will probably include a focus on filtering out the noise as I mentioned in earlier posts here and here. But, before I started writing I checked my no-noise mentors folders and this was waiting for me: Happy Birthday, I’m Unfriending You: I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs, via Brad Feld.  Every heavy social media user would greatly benefit from reading and understanding the points Brad is making in this post. My no-noise folder consists only of people who are consistent in the quality of their advice and do not generate much noise. They bring lots of value to my learning journey without asking anything in return or even knowing I&#8217;m here. Easy and extremely valuable to me. In return, I just don&#8217;t create any noise for them. Even easier&#8230;for both of us. Would I be static if everyone of the people in my no-noise folder would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Team Have a Self-Improving Strategy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a member of your team makes a mistake, how does the rest of the team react? Do all of you dismiss it as just being human and do nothing about it or do you find a way to avoid the mistake being repeated by any of the members? Does your team leader encourage the team to always take responsibility for both the mistakes and the kudos and learn from them? How does your team members help each grow to his/her full potential? Do you even know your team members true potential or are you totally absorbed with your own success? In a post titled Awesome things I might have read this week, Eddologgy&#8217;s Edd Dumbill categorized two posts under a self-improvement heading that I thought many of us could benefit from: Take nothing personally: don’t let your emotions hold you back http://bennesvig.com/2012/01/27/taking-nothing-personally/ (Ben Nesvig) And Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret: I include this because mostly I’m amused at a basic technique being heralded as a secret. Accountability is a superpower.  http://blog.idonethis.com/post/16736314554/silicon-valleys-productivity-secret (iDoneThis) However, after reading both posts back-to-back I had to re-read the reasons Edd had put them under such a heading, and found myself wanting to add the word Team to the self-improvement heading. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Danger of the Salieri Complex in Startups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fictionalized Salieri character in the movie Amadeus presents a very enlightening take on mediocrity combined with a sense of grandiosity and poor execution, a combination I call the Salieri Complex.* In the movie, Salieri&#8217; self-perceived mediocrity is best portrayed in the scene where he renounces and denounces God for having given him the longing for creating great music and for grandiosity, but depriving him of the great talent he witnessed expressed in the non-deserving and despicable little person he thought Mozart was in the film.** And that Salieri believed that talent, recognition and success were things of a deserving and entitlement nature and not earned by actually creating superb music presents another interesting dimension to the Salieri Complex. Salieri&#8217;s renouncement and denouncement transforms quickly into a self-defeating obsession to beat and, with disguised efforts, destroy Amadeus only to end-up as a broken man who never achieved the legacy he so deeply longed for. The compelling story in this film is a cautionary tale against the Salieri Complex in individuals, but it can easily be extended to startups who make claims of grandiosity without delivering the goods, but still expect the recognition for their self-perceived grandiosity. How many times have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What story do you tell yourself when you see a possibility?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we seek it or not, we are a permanent and constant target of information from the net, from daily nuances and encounters, and from the organic information generated by our own brain-mind complexity. And we can choose to overuse that information until we become inconsistent people, or eliminate the useless information and focus on magic data points ala Brad Feld, or simply dismiss it as entertaining or even annoying and just grinf#*!$d it (or them.) And yet, from all that information we manage to make 700+ decisions daily. It is rather amazing how System 1 and System 2 as described in Thinking, Fast and Slow act and react to process all the input and output reference points we are faced with on a daily basis. But, what is even more extraordinary is how some people can naturally see possibilities hidden in what might seem to others mundane information and dig value out of it to turn it into something real or beautiful, like the folks over at fotoblur.com or amazing musicians like those in Possibilities or you and your entrepreneurship spirit. And although most of us have the ability to see possible things existing in the abstract of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Entrepreneur Mondays Directly from New York City!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Apple offers more of everything than anyone of us could experience in a lifetime. On Monday Mornings, NYC blogger Gotham Gal brings us reviews of the entrepreneurship spirits of the women she encounters in her path and describes the experiences as an honor to meet so many women who are marking their own territory. Reading thru the 60+ entries she has under the Women Entrepreneur Monday one can see why Gotham Gal stated that Truth is women have the ability to do it all when she listed the few things  that she would personally like to see happen in 2012: I&#8217;d like women to stop apologizing and to never utter the word I am sorry for the decisions that they have made in their careers.  I&#8217;d like women to stop starting their sentences with I think. Just get in there and speak your mind. I stumbled into Gotham Gal while writing To Reaching the Top (notice the Tweet form Jimmy Wales about his supergeek child). The reason that Gotham Gal&#8217;s wish for 2012 caught my attention is the fact that the message is coming from someone in New York City, easily one of the most progressive and sophisticated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Startup Telling Inspiring Stories or Just Chasing the Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success, as beauty, is in eye of the beholder.  Recently I read a post titled What We Talk About When We&#8217;re Dying, and although I thought it would be  a depressing post, it wasn&#8217;t.  It reinforced a belief that it&#8217;s in our dying beds where we might truly understand the quality of our success and that it would probably be defined in terms of how we impacted and were impacted by other human beings in our path. What we talk about in our dying beds are stories about people. During the last year or so, effective storytelling, whether described under the transmedia, cross-media or social branding terms, has become a more critical part of a company approach to the marketplace, event though we have been telling stories even before we had language. This sudden emphasis, and movement actually, to become more aware of the relevance of storytelling in a marketing strategy is very entertaining because it addresses not just the quality of the story and the narrative itself, but the medium.  And because the medium is based on the Internet and how it empowers the users, it&#8217;s simply beautiful and totally fun to watch how creativity seems now to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your startup have what it takes to know when to Pivot?</title>
		<link>http://www.2b2collaboration.com/blog/does-your-startup-have-what-it-takes-to-know-when-to-pivot/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=does-your-startup-have-what-it-takes-to-know-when-to-pivot</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Succesful Pivot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.2b2collaboration.com/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest value Lean Startup methodology offers is that it forces a startup to pay attention to when the market is telling it that it&#8217;s time to pivot: &#8230;develop the judgment to know when it&#8217;s time to change direction and when it&#8217;s time to stay the course. That&#8217;s why so many lean startup practices are focused on learning to tell the difference between progress and wasted effort&#8230; In Lean Startup changing the vision isn&#8217;t the goal. The goal is to gather measurable market feedback and use it to find out whether [your] vision is compatible with reality or is a delusion, and then do something with the new information: Pivot. My favorite example of a company that new when to pivot is Pixar, not only because the market segment they ended up in is so different from the ones they originally started targeting (government and health), but also because they have lighten up the spirits of so many customers. I would venture to bet that your family has at least one favorite Pixar movie in its top ten most favorite ever (we have four.) But the set of criteria needed for successful pivot seems slippery to many startup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Startup Failing to Actionably Engage New Users?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever listen to an interview with Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, or read one of her posts, you might agree with me that she is  an endless fountain of transcendent advice for startups.  One of my favorite interviews is one she did  with The National Center for Women and Information Technology, where she described how Flickr snatched &#8220;victory from the jaws of defeat.&#8221;  I still picture a tiny startup grabbing a bag full of  money from the shark in Jaws (yeah, I know&#8230;) However, there is one advice from the earlier years of Flickr that you would expect new startups would have assimilated by now since building engaging communities has become almost a commodity: &#8230;Caterina Fake said the success of Flickr depended on the premise that “you have to greet the first 10,000 users personally” via How to Save the World. If the goal of your startup is to build an ever growing and engaged community of users, your very first interaction with each of them is the most important one, specially now when we have so many choices of the same thing. These past few weeks I&#8217;ve registered to several startups who kindly enough have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CoDePPFP: Playing the Entrepreneurship Maze Game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.2b2collaboration.com/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  If you&#8217;ve ever played a game of maze, whether real structures or digital ones, you probably went thru something like this: 1. Before you started the game you clearly understood that it&#8217;s rigged and that there is an exit or price somewhere, you won&#8217;t be trapped in the maze forever, 2. The moment you decided to play the game you also understood that, to win it and avoid getting trapped in the maze forever, you have to be Continuous, Dedicated, Patient, Persistent, Flexible and Passionate: CoDePPFP. The same can be applied to the entrepreneurship game and if you embrace from the very beginning that the game is rigged with lots of disappointments and false starts, each failure could become a step closer to success, as long as you are continuous in your learning of the game and even if it takes you a lifetime to find that exit. The game of entrepreneurship is definitely hard to  play, but you don&#8217;t have to lose it anyway, regardless of what life throws at you. It might take you a year or a lifetime to get thru the maze, but if you find a way to at least be continuous in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Inconsistent Leader?</title>
		<link>http://www.2b2collaboration.com/blog/counterattacking-the-damages-from-inconsistent-leaders/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=counterattacking-the-damages-from-inconsistent-leaders</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In logic, consistency (consistent theory) is one that does not contain a contradiction. Thus, in logical terms of consistency, we could say that humans can&#8217;t be consistent since contradiction is a natural characteristic of being human.  Our ability to change our minds and contradict some previously held belief when new information becomes available is good enough reason, at least for me, to embrace human inconsistency. But,  inconsistent leaders can create tremendous damage to their companies, teams and projects. In his brief blog post, The Human Whiteboard Syndrome, Matt Blumberg provides an excellent example of the damage caused by an inconsistent leader, in this case one whose thoughts always reflect the last thing he heard on any given subject. People in leadership positions who behave like this make it very frustrating to work on any kind of continuous path and result in the following symptoms cleverly listed by Mark: Whiplash: you send people in one direction one day, another direction the next day Fatigue: rework is exhausting for those who are constantly in fluid situations, especially if they don’t have full access to information flow Headaches: it turns out that constantly changing one’s mind is painful for ones self, not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Member of a Secret-Hunting Startup?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.2b2collaboration.com/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The odds are that while playing games as a child you were often in the  flow, that irreplaceable mental state where you&#8217;re so immersed in the game that the full involvement brings the game to live.  Sadly, getting to the flow becomes more difficult as we get older since it is harder to keep the daily nuances out of our minds. I remember when I first understood the value of the flow.  It was while playing the computer games Wolfenstein (yeah, I know&#8230;).  Anyway, one ugly, rainy day I had been playing for about an hour and had just conquered level 12, if I recall the level number correctly. But unlike the previous times when I survived that level and moved to the next one, the next level was a NEW one, I mean, a NEW SECRET level I had never, ever discovered before, but had been there all this time&#8230;WOW! You can imagine how delighted I was.  It took me for ever (like the next 4 hours) to save myself from the killers and monster in this level, but I did it. I wasted that entire ugly day obsessed about that one mysterious level.  By the time I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Have a Team or Just a Bunch of Talents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a leader or founding member of any project or startup, it is necessary to surround yourself by people talented in their areas of contribution. However, it is indispensable that everyone of them, and you, operate as a single mind capable of carrying on the CoDePPFP regardless of what life throws at you. Without such a team attitude, your great idea and smart individuals would be just that, ideas and individuals, instead of something greater than the sum of its parts. A very entertaining and delightfully sad example of a group of talented individuals who squandered their opportunity to be successful because they couldn&#8217;t even resemble the definition of a team is portrayed in Roddy Doyle&#8217;s novel The Commitments. The Commitments is a tale about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band. If you are a movie fan, you might have seen the very popular film by the same title and if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet and are leading a startup, consider watching it as a What Not to Do lesson while enjoying a great flick with moving music (check out the clip at the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Value Do Late Adopters Offer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you aware of the 700+ decisions you make daily? Are you happier when you get to choose for yourself or when others do so? When faced with choosing to join the masses and adapt a newly released product, do you jump in and just get it or do you wait? Are you an early or late adopter? Google&#8217;s recent announcement that it&#8217;s consolidating its privacy policies brings all these questions to the forefront. In a thought provoking article, Sara Marie Watson inquires about our relationship with corporations such as Google: We must each begin to test our thresholds for levels of exposure and begin to question the nature of our relationships with these companies. We must ask ourselves, at what point does Google know more about me than I&#8217;m comfortable with? And we must think about these questions not only based on companies&#8217; postures today, but on their unpredictable potential use down the road. It seems to me that she is asking us to be a bit of late adopters and consider the implications down the road before we choose to let a company make our decisions for us. But, something doesn&#8217;t quite make sense in all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do Special Grown Ups Come From?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maricelam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In physics a Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated&#8230; Last year I saw a bad Tim Robbin&#8217;s movie whose only redeeming quality was a line said by a woman to a man that went something like this: Everyone thinks their children are special. You wonder where all the ordinary grown ups come from. But, WAIT! Don&#8217;t take it as an insult against anyone. Ponder about this line  in relationship to what Ken Robinson refers to in the video clip below:  The inadequacy of industrialized educational systems that groups children by age and not by talents and abilities. The law of reflection says that for specular reflection the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected. Mirrors exhibit specular reflection. What if, for analogy purposes, we were to look at grown ups as a reflection of their childhoods and the educational system as the mirror that based on its quality determines how special the child&#8217;s reflection, the grown up, is? In this analogy, then, only great mirrors would result [...]]]></description>
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