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		<title>Seth Godin on competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He nails it:
&#8220;2. There are six billion people in the world. Even if your market is hand-made spoke shaves for left-handed woodworkers, there are more people in your market than you can ever hope to track down.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/seth-godin-on-competition/</link>
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		<title>Dismissal is not a strategy but the publishing industry seems to think it is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a Google news feed set up for e-books so I can keep up with the evolving e-book story. Recently there have been a number of interviews with CEOs of major publishing houses in which they dismiss e-books and claim that print will be around for a long time. This makes me wonder what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/dismissal-is-not-a-strategy-but-the-publishing-industry-seems-to-think-it-is/</link>
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		<title>Nurturing the &#8216;Top Idea&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this thought-provoking post by Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame this morning (thanks to John Gruber of Daring Fireball for the link) and shared it with several friends. It&#8217;s a simple premise: We tend to have a &#8216;top idea&#8217; that takes up a lot of our primary thinking energy. Paul identifies your current top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/nurturing-the-top-idea/</link>
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		<title>The beginning of the end for print books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Amazon announced that for every 100 hardcover books sold they sold 143 Kindle versions of the same titles. This is the tipping point for the publishing industry and they are not going to like it. Just as iPod/iTunes killed the CD business (and record stores), eBooks are the end of dead tree print books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-print-books/</link>
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		<title>In Upstate NY we don&#8217;t do start-ups in garages (unfortunately)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent some time in the Bay Area (and will be there this weekend) so I understand the weather issue. I also understand the cost of rental space. The two together mean people really do start-ups in garages- it&#8217;s pretty mild and you can just open the door up on most days. Sometime I wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/in-upstate-ny-we-dont-do-start-ups-in-garages-unfortunately/</link>
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		<title>How valuable is your time? No brain picking&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Shankman of HARO (Help A Reporter Out) has a great piece on valuing your time and not letting others devalue it.
This is the core driving value of 24PageBooks: Our time is too valuable to waste with filler.
BTW, if you&#8217;re not familiar with HARO, check it out. He is reinventing the PR business. And watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/how-valuable-is-your-time-no-brain-picking/</link>
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		<title>What does your start-up do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wading through my daily quick look at the tech sites like Teccrunch, VentureBeat, etc., getting frustrated that they all have the same stories, often with the same wording obviously lifted from press releases and I had a thought that I have on a weekly basis:
Why don&#8217;t they tell us, in a clearly understandable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/what-does-your-start-up-do/</link>
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		<title>Some thoughts on interactivity in eBooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently registered www.24PageCookbooks.com after realizing that a 24 page cookbook could work and that there may very well be a demand for them, if they are packaged right. We know these things are going to get more and more integrated with web services and this interactivity got me thinking. For example, what if each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/some-thoughts-on-interactivity-in-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>The zero footprint business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No employees.
No offices.
No tangible product or inventory.
No infrastructure.
No payment system.
No overhead.
Infinitely scalable.
Highly profitable.
Sounds like a fantasy doesn&#8217;t it? Well, it is our fantasy. You&#8217;ll note that it doesn&#8217;t say No Work. There is work but it is work for the founders and it can be done anywhere. The goods are virtual but the money is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/the-zero-footprint-business/</link>
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		<title>From job to &#8216;passion job&#8217; to passion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I work full time as Director of Marketing for a 35 person software company and spend the rest of my time working on 24PageBooks. One is a job (a good one), the other is a passion (all passions are good, IMHO, as long they are not destructive). I recently read yet another blog post about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whattheyresaying.com/from-job-to-passion-job-to-passion/</link>
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