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	<title>David Cancel</title>
	<link>http://davidcancel.com</link>
	<description>Making something from nothing.</description>
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		<title>Lean Startups in Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next month I&#8217;ll be speaking at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Lean Startups Event. The event will take place on the campus of MIT at the Stata Center on February 24 at 6:30pm. More details can be found here.
I&#8217;ll be talking about our experiences running an agile product, customer and engineering process at Performable. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/lean-startups-in-boston/</link>
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		<title>Customer Development Lunch with Dan Martell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a startuper or marketer in Boston I’d like to invite you to join us this week at Performable&#8217;s 3rd Customer Development Lunch, this Tuesday (January 26th, 2010) at 12:30pm.
We&#8217;ll be welcoming serial entrepreneur and fellow marketing metrics geek Dan Martell to Boston. Dan is a canadian entrepreneur now residing in Silicon Valley; he is the co-founder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/customer-development-lunch-with-dan-martell/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Ghostery</title>
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To the Ghostery Community,
Since starting Ghostery last year my goal has been to provide my fellow consumers with a free service built on the principles of transparency and consumer control. I am proud of the overwhelming response to Ghostery; over the past year, over 2 million people have installed Ghostery and joined our community.
Over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/the-future-of-ghostery/</link>
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		<title>Customer Development Lunch with Jonathan Mendez</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a startuper or marketer in Boston I&#8217;d like to invite you to join us this week at our 2nd Customer Development Lunch, this Thursday (January 7th, 2010) at 12:30pm.
Our first Customer Development Lunch featured our Advisor, Sean Ellis, and was graciously hosted by Spark Capital. Our second lunch will feature Jonathan Mendez and will be hosted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/customer-development-lunch-with-jonathan-mendez/</link>
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		<title>Closed Loop Marketing with Performable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been so heads-down in the early days of my new startup, Performable, that we may have given the appearance of being in stealth mode. The truth is, we&#8217;ve actually been working closely with early customers, behind the scenes.
I do not like stealth mode. It usually means that a startup is off working in a bubble, receiving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/closed-loop-marketing-with-performable/</link>
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		<title>Welcoming Sean Ellis to Performable</title>
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I would like to welcome Sean Ellis to the Performable team. Sean joined our Board of Advisors last month.
Sean is well-known in the valley, running the successful consultancy 12in6 where he helps startups optimize their messaging and marketing campaigns. He also writes the fantastic Startup Marketing Blog and speaks regularly on the startup marketing world. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/welcoming-sean-ellis-to-performable/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Startup CEOs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to my friend Evan this morning about a bunch of startup topics from office space (stay virtual as long as possible) to the best ways to communicate with your board. Evan is a serial startup CEO and offered me some great advice, he was even kind enough to blog about it since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/tips-for-startup-ceos/</link>
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		<title>Keep Your Startup Virtual</title>
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Image by dcancel via Flickr



My advice for those starting a new company: Stay virtual as long as possible.
One thing we did get right at Lookery was minimizing our infrastructure which let us focus our energy and cash on getting our product to market &#8212; fast.
We&#8217;re following a similar model at my new startup, Performable. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/keep-your-startup-virtual/</link>
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		<title>10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read</title>
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These are the 10 books that I believe every entrepreneur should read:

The Entrepreneur&#8217;s Guide to Business Law &#8211; LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder&#8217;s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity vs Debt financing? This book will educate you enough to be able to answer these and many other important questions.
Bootstrapping Your Business &#8211; From the founder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-should-read/</link>
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		<title>Analyzing Your Twitter Followers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given my history I feel like I&#8217;ve seen every &#8220;It&#8217;s like Compete but for X&#8221; pitch. 
So far I&#8217;ve only seen two of these that I found really compelling: 

Next Big Sound &#8211; &#8220;Compete for Music&#8221; ( Thanks to @robhayes for the intro ).
GraphEdge &#8211; &#8220;Compete for your Social Graph&#8221;.




GraphEdge just went into beta and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidcancel.com/analyzing-your-twitter-followers/</link>
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