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		<title>Should I Hire A Growth Hacker For My Startup?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tectonic plates in mobile and web application development are shifting faster than ever these days.  Development used to be a about smart idea turned into project timeline with quality gates, and an eventual due date for the project being finished or turned on.  That just isn&#8217;t the case any longer.  Ok, maybe in old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Matchbox Alum&#8217;s Kickstarter Project To Check Out</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2013/02/28/social-matchbox-alums-kickstarter-project-to-check-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with Social Matchbox alum Chis Seline about a Kickstarter project for a game called Poker Smash.  The game is best described as poker meets Tetris. He and is partner on the Void Star Creations are engaged in an effort are planning to port the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Houston &amp; Dallas, Coworking Space Recommendations Wanted</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/10/23/visiting-houston-dallas-coworking-space-recommendations-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be in Houston and Dallas next week and am looking for recommendations on coworking spaces.  If you know a great coffee house that is a good place to cowork I would love to hear about it. The places that I have found in Dallas so far include: The Common Desk Cohabitat Workhaus Lodge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build Your Startup Community A Book At A Time</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/10/20/build-your-startup-community-a-book-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/10/20/build-your-startup-community-a-book-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I&#8217;m reading I&#8217;m feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. His book talks about how the team from Google hacked together one hell of a rack at Exodus back in the &#8217;90&#8242;s and about the excitement that he and others shared about working for a startup that was going to exit big.  I would highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BrightContext Raises $1.74 Million</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/09/25/brightcontext-raises-1-74-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arlington, VA based BrightContext has just announced their raise of $1.74 Million in new funding.  The company is in the social television space and is providing a service that makes it easier for television companies to implement elastic massively interactive programming with the goal of enabling viewers to interact with one another in real time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WeddingWire Raises $25 Million in Post Series A Funding</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/09/25/weddingwire-raises-25-million-in-post-series-a-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/09/25/weddingwire-raises-25-million-in-post-series-a-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Caplain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WeddingWire, a Bethesda, MD based growth stage startup serving the wedding industry announced today that they raised a $25 million investment from Spectrum Equity.  The company&#8217;s leadership team includes Timothy Chi who was a co-founder of Blackboard, Lee Wang who was VP of Sales at Parature and prior to that a Director at Blackboard. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>thus you are now considered a GAP 50 finalist</title>
		<link>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/09/24/thus-you-are-now-considered-a-gap-50-finalist/</link>
		<comments>http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/2012/09/24/thus-you-are-now-considered-a-gap-50-finalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SocialMatchbox Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days back I received an email from the CIT Gap Fund folks that reads as follows: &#8220;Subject: ACTION Needed: CIT&#8217;s GAP 50 CIT is celebrating Virginia’s most promising entrepreneurs through CIT GAP Funds’ “GAP 50” Award Program  (http://www.cit.org/gap50).  A state-wide awards program, the “GAP 50” will honor both the emerging and repeat entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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