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	<title>For The Win</title>
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		<title>Job Creationism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started my investing career doing leveraged buy-out deals at Bain Capital, working directly for Mitt Romney and his then small group of partners.  I left in 1997 to start my own venture capital firm, and part of my rationale &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/job-creationism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/job-creationism/</link>
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		<title>The End is Near (ish)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There is an article making the rounds (link:  here) forecasting a drought in late stage fundraising coming soon:  “When? Perhaps as early as three months from now. Surely no later than six.”  As I’ve have written before, I’m always &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/the-end-is-near-ish/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/the-end-is-near-ish/</link>
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		<title>Tear Down This Paywall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was speaking with a friend of mine, an incredibly talented New York Times reporter and great friend, about the NYT paywall recently. When she asked me if I paid, I responded with an indignant “no”, and proceeded to rail &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/media/tear-down-this-paywall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/media/tear-down-this-paywall/</link>
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		<title>A Nation of Switchers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was on a call with a senior guy at one of my portfolio companies recently, and asked him what the background noise was. He explained that he was at a “Daily Deal” conference. Of course I replied “WTF?”, and &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/marketing/a-nation-of-switchers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/marketing/a-nation-of-switchers/</link>
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		<title>Intentionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me how frequently startups manage to beat large companies. I was in a big bank the other day, and couldn’t help but be impressed by the resources they had at their command. They have a &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/146/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/146/</link>
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		<title>Finding More Great &#8220;Criminals&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Balzac once said, &#8220;Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.&#8221; In the past few weeks, we have been treated to scandalous-if-true stories about the founding of Facebook and Twitter. Allegedly, Facebook was founded by the guy who stole &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/behind-every-great-fortune-lies-a-great-crime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/behind-every-great-fortune-lies-a-great-crime/</link>
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		<title>Seed Investing and Paper Lanterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who lives high up in a building, and has a terrace, and likes to set off Chinese paper lanterns late at night. The aerodynamics are such that the wind flows up the side of the building &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/117/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/117/</link>
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		<title>Orthogonal Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was meeting with some entrepreneurs last week, a terrific young team with an interesting company, and we were discussing their business. About halfway in, I said &#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s assume that most of this works, and you get some traction. &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/orthogonal-feedback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/orthogonal-feedback/</link>
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		<title>Which Buildings Do We Burn Down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first task of a revolutionary is figuring out which buildings to burn down. In that same sense, the first task of an entrepreneurial firm is to figure out what of the existing order to keep, and what to challenge. &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/which-buildings-do-we-burn-down/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://mattftw.com/entrepreneurship/which-buildings-do-we-burn-down/</link>
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		<title>Tired of Self-Hating VCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was stimulated by a tweet i read over the weekend, by a VC I won&#8217;t name because I don&#8217;t know him, and he has a very good reputation for being a nice guy. His tweet read: &#8220;I&#8217;m really &#8230; <a href="http://mattftw.com/vc-industry/tired-of-self-hating-vcs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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