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		<dc:creator>uggs123</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: edhardy622</title>
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		<dc:creator>edhardy622</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: düğümküme &#187; Küresel Mali Krizde Son Kurtarılacaklar</title>
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		<dc:creator>düğümküme &#187; Küresel Mali Krizde Son Kurtarılacaklar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] VentureBeat VC yatırımlarının düşünü yazıyor http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/17/surprise-venture-investments-falling/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] VentureBeat VC yatırımlarının düşünü yazıyor <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/17/surprise-venture-investments-falling/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/17/surprise-venture-investments-falling/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mail.com raises $35M for custom emails - Start-Up News &#124; Internet Startups</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mail.com raises $35M for custom emails - Start-Up News &#124; Internet Startups</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ad-driven startup seem worthy of a sizable investment during an economic downturn, particularly as venture backing of web companies declines? I&#8217;m not sure. The round was led by Quadrangle Capital Partners, an affiliate of the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ad-driven startup seem worthy of a sizable investment during an economic downturn, particularly as venture backing of web companies declines? I&#8217;m not sure. The round was led by Quadrangle Capital Partners, an affiliate of the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mail.com raises $35M for custom emails &#187; VentureBeat</title>
		<link>http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/17/surprise-venture-investments-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-831665</link>
		<dc:creator>Mail.com raises $35M for custom emails &#187; VentureBeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ad-driven startup seem worthy of a sizable investment during an economic downturn, particularly as venture backing of web companies declines? I&#8217;m not sure. The round was led by Quadrangle Capital Partners, an affiliate of the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ad-driven startup seem worthy of a sizable investment during an economic downturn, particularly as venture backing of web companies declines? I&#8217;m not sure. The round was led by Quadrangle Capital Partners, an affiliate of the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: herbal remedy</title>
		<link>http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/17/surprise-venture-investments-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-860607</link>
		<dc:creator>herbal remedy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clearly, the current economic crisis is already impacting the venture industry, which has traditionally been relatively insulated from fluctuations in the broader economy.&lt;br&gt;With the IPO market likely to be shut down for some time, venture capitalists are pulling back on investments in technology companies as well as in areas like business and financial services and media, content and information that are likely to suffer from a decline in advertising and enterprise spending.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly, the current economic crisis is already impacting the venture industry, which has traditionally been relatively insulated from fluctuations in the broader economy.<br />With the IPO market likely to be shut down for some time, venture capitalists are pulling back on investments in technology companies as well as in areas like business and financial services and media, content and information that are likely to suffer from a decline in advertising and enterprise spending.</p>
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		<title>By: Norman  Peterson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Norman  Peterson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I attended the Bend Venture Conference (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bendvc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.bendvc.com/&lt;/a&gt;)  this weekend , with the keynote speaker being Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes. It is definitely an interesting time to attend a venture conference. Rich discussed the current crises and did a great job of exposing how people are being overly pessimistic, but he was not too optimistic either. One key thing that stuck out from both the keynote and the companies  that presented is that this may actually be a great time for innovative companies to thrive, as larger companies struggle to figure out how to stay the course, smaller companies with low overhead and innovative ideas will have a chance to grow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I attended the Bend Venture Conference (<a href="http://www.bendvc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bendvc.com/</a>)  this weekend , with the keynote speaker being Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes. It is definitely an interesting time to attend a venture conference. Rich discussed the current crises and did a great job of exposing how people are being overly pessimistic, but he was not too optimistic either. One key thing that stuck out from both the keynote and the companies  that presented is that this may actually be a great time for innovative companies to thrive, as larger companies struggle to figure out how to stay the course, smaller companies with low overhead and innovative ideas will have a chance to grow.</p>
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		<title>By: Julia V</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julia V</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What else is new. Everything is dropping, being laid off or obsolete. But what really brightened my day yesterday was seeing Warren Buffet&#039;s comments on an interview. He said &quot;be fearful when everyone is greedy, and be greedy when everyone is fearful&quot;... that&#039;s why he says this is a great time to buy real estate and stocks. And that he&#039;s been doing. He&#039;s been right so far in 1974, 1979, and 1999.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What else is new. Everything is dropping, being laid off or obsolete. But what really brightened my day yesterday was seeing Warren Buffet&#39;s comments on an interview. He said &#8220;be fearful when everyone is greedy, and be greedy when everyone is fearful&#8221;&#8230; that&#39;s why he says this is a great time to buy real estate and stocks. And that he&#39;s been doing. He&#39;s been right so far in 1974, 1979, and 1999.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Kassing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Kassing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The size of the funding will drop but the quality of the company financed should increase. Make money or go home.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Michael Kassing&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://MarkTend.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkTend.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marktend.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://marktend.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The size of the funding will drop but the quality of the company financed should increase. Make money or go home.</p>
<p>Michael Kassing<br /><a href="http://MarkTend.com" rel="nofollow">MarkTend.com</a><br /><a href="http://marktend.com" rel="nofollow">http://marktend.com</a></p>
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