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		<title>Five Ideas to Get Your Business Going</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most top 5 lists on what to do to start a business include getting a business license, setting up a bank account, and finding a lawyer to complete your important documents.  We at the Entrepreneur School think that these steps come much later in the process and may not even be necessary until you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidence in Small Businesses is Strong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent gallup poll, people were asked about the level of confidence they had in particular institutions.  These ranged from government to business to military. Small businesses have a strong level of confidence.  They are in second place after the military. Congress comes in dead last with an abysmal confidence percentage of 11%, losing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bootstrapping a Start-up Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/bootstrapping-a-start-up-business-1923</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bootstrapping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago, I launched a one page website for a service business and advertised by using Google Ads capped at $2/day.  I currently offer more services than I could provide with the equipment I currently have.  Is that dishonest?  No, because if my client wants the service I advertise, I will purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boycotting BP</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/boycotting-bp-1900</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The music bands Korn, Creed, Backstreet Boys, and Lady Gaga have all made the headlines recently calling for a boycott of BP stations.  That&#8217;s interesting since these bands directly use a ton of gas each year for their tours and indirectly lead to the consumption of gas by concert-goers making their way to the shows.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now is the Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You hear people say it all the time.  If I just had an extra hour in the day, I could do so much.  I could start a business, exercise more, or prepare home-cooked meals.  Just one hour a day. Well, according to a new survey highlighted in this morning&#8217;s Wall Street Journal researching time management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KISS: Keep it Simple Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a great story of an artist named Giotto that takes place just before the blossoming of the Italian Renaissance.  Giorgio Vasari, in his book &#8220;The Lives of the Artists,&#8221; writes about a particular instance where Giotto showed his greatness in the most simplistic manner imaginable. The story goes like this &#8211; the pope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneur&#8217;s Path</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/the-entrepreneurs-path-1892</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business startup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to an article from this morning&#8217;s NY Times about making the shift from employee to self-employed.  Phyllis Korkki covers topics of what to expect in making the switch and to be aware that 50% or more of new businesses fail.  She pulls a quote from Professor Sahlman of Harvard: &#8220;Once they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/time-management-1889</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a small business owner, one of your biggest challenges will be effectively managing your time.  Work will continue to pile up.  So how do you choose which projects to focus on? One technique that really helped me out was creating a very simple spreadsheet with the following items going across: Projects &#8211; Total Project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Build it, They Will Come</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-1884</link>
		<comments>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-1884#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner hears a voice that tells him &#8216;if he builds it, they will come.&#8217;  It refers to a baseball field, and them refers to deceased baseball players.  It all works out pretty well in that Kevin Costner builds it and people do actually come. If only this were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Big Short</title>
		<link>http://blog.theentrepreneurschool.com/book-review-the-big-short-1881</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Rostad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading &#8220;The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine&#8221; by Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis is also the author of &#8220;Liar&#8217;s Poker,&#8221; which described his 3 years working on Wall Street, advising investors on major investments when he said he had no idea what was going on. In fact, not many people he worked [...]]]></description>
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