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		<title>Pull back that label</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2012/01/23/pull-back-that-label/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 6am alarm rang out, Harsh stretched out his hand to silence it. He didn&#8217;t particularly like getting up early, but he had to. His family had recently moved across town. The daily ride to school was now an hour long through the harsh metro traffic. That wasn&#8217;t the only difficulty the move had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=3213&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Summer of Startup Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I look forward to April, I can sense the anticipation of talented individuals who are about to embark on remarkable journeys. This is also is when the foundations for these companies are being laid. Some will be starting out with their friends. As the gears churn away in the minds of the founders, they are carefully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=3161&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Know Thyself &#124; Guides to the Journey Inward</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/24/know-thyself-guides-to-the-journey-inward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zen Mind, Beginner&#8217;s Mind: I discovered Zen Mind when listening to a talk by the Instagr.am founders on Stanford&#8217;s eCorner. They suggested Zen Mind to help you listen to your gut better and it aroused my curiosity. The book is a series of short lectures (5 to 8 mins of talking) by Shunryu Suzuki, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=3097&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customer DNA</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/24/customer-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[building ventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 1,000+ emails sent. Worked with the largest, to the smallest customer, all the way down to their end-users. Stumble occasionally but get back up and keep course &#8211; and then completely out of the blue, you strike the right note with someone. Can&#8217;t help but share this badge I earned. What a delight to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=3099&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Main</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/18/return-to-main/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been the most unusual one to write. It has been an effort of well over a year now to gather what I have learned and put it into proper words. Some introspection, a series of conversations with family, other entrepreneurs, friends and mentors helped me find them, and yet it must remain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=3001&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living the night-shift life</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/16/living-the-night-shift-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 4 weeks ago, an opportunity came up to work night hours. Since then, I have been starting work roughly around 5pm and ending up at 5am. By blogging about how it went I think I&#8217;ve gained some insight into how a portion of India&#8217;s night-shift workforce works and feels. The first 3 days were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2969&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a Co-founder?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/14/why-a-co-founder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out the answer is really quite simple, as a kind mentor once said to me &#8211; you just want someone to share your journey with. No further pondering needed . Filed under: building ventures Tagged: journey, mentor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2977&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forgetfulness</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/05/forgetfullness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me well will tell you that I tend to be forgetful at times. I know they are right, I have been forgetful from my childhood days. At school, I found it hard to get around remembering dates in history, chemistry equations and the like. Greater the effort I made at remembering things, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2954&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am Tinnitus, the sound in Jack&#8217;s ears</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/12/02/i-am-tinnitus-the-sound-in-jacks-ears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sukshma.net/?p=2926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve known Jack for some time now. It is hard to say when we were first acquainted. He probably became aware of me when he first encountered silence. Only in silence is it easy to pick up on sounds that you do not hear in the ordinary din of every day noise. I wasn&#8217;t always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2926&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marrow of Practice, Work, or Play</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/11/30/the-marrow-of-practice-work-or-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The purpose of today&#8217;s training is to defeat yesterday&#8217;s understanding&#8221; ~ Miyamoto Mushashi. Related: * Return to Main * Living the night-shift life Filed under: disruptive Tagged: quotes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2919&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook will IPO at $100Bn</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/11/30/facebook-will-ipo-at-100bn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company who&#8217;s primary driver is the intellectual capital of 100&#8242;s of millions of people, 10&#8242;s of thousands of developers, A company that wants to increase the value of &#8216;brand&#8217; above everything else by driving down the value of privacy. Interesting times indeed &#8230; The apologies of Zuckerberg. Farhad Manjoo, Slate.com This might seem obvious: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2916&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An update on my blog</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/08/14/an-update-on-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are wondering what&#8217;s going on here, this is where I write. I have had a live blog on the web for a really long time now. If you&#8217;ll look to your right, you&#8217;ll see streamlined post categories including ventures, technology, reflection, india, programming and fiction. These are really the things I write passionately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2867&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dive into a nightmare</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/08/14/dive-into-a-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exploration of the thin line between dream state and reality. My eyelids twitch, heart flutters, fingers curl and close into a fist. Steadily, anxiety builds up. In a dream state, my mind fails to comprehend where these signals are headed. I can tell something strange is going on but I fail to grasp the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2859&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sukshma&#8217;s back up</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2011/05/08/sukshmas-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 07:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a hibernation of 2 years, Sukshma, my blog is back up again. No blog posts yet, one&#8217;s coming in soon &#8211; so do come back. Filed under: reflection Tagged: blogging, sukshma<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=2214&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netbooks at $99 from AT&amp;T</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2009/04/04/netbooks-at-99-from-att/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece of news is exciting enough to merit a blog post. This year, at least one wireless phone company in the United States will probably offer netbooks free with paid data plans, copying similar programs in Japan, according to industry experts. But this revolution is not just about falling prices. Personal computers — and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1499&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why be at Proto &amp; Headstart 2009?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/12/09/why-be-at-proto-headstart-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried selling an invention or an idea? If you happen to be a &#8216;nutty&#8217; entrepreneur who is always thinking about building (and selling) the next new new thing &#8211; I have news for you. Help has just arrived in the form of innovation show cases &#8211; Proto.in and Headstart.in. Earlier this year, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1267&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bezos on pain and invention</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/10/24/jeff-bezos-on-pain-and-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are willing to plant seeds that take five to seven years to grow into reasonable things,” he said in an interview. “You can’t do big, clean-sheet invention unless you are willing to invest for long periods of time.” - Jeff Bezos, &#8220;Amid the gloom an e-commerce war&#8220;, New York Times. Posted in building ventures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lipikaar wins the Manthan Award South Asia for e-Localizaton!</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/10/21/lipikaar-wins-manthan-award-south-asia-for-localizaton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re absolutely thrilled to win the prestigious Manthan award for South Asia, for the e-Localization category. The award was presented to us at a grand event in New Delhi, on Saturday Oct 18, 2008 by Padma Bhushan recipient and the very inspiring Shri Anna Hazare. Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1231&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CSI Pune reaches out to Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/10/08/csi-pune-reaches-out-to-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune of being the Guest Editor for the quarterly newsletter of The Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter. The newsletter, titled DeskTalk recently won the National Newsletter Award. The theme for this edition was Entrepreneurship and we managed to put together an interesting set of articles on various aspects of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1229&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do Entrepreneurs really want?</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/10/07/what-do-entrepreneurs-really-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a short article on what motivates entrepreneurs. The right challenge or adventure. Or is it just necessity-driven entrepreneurship? The right challenge inspires Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Our Software on every PC&#8221;, Google&#8217;s &#8220;Renewable energy cheaper than coal&#8221; and many other entrepreneurial initiatives that have changed the world. The right friends to work with. The starting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1227&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on Technology Entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/09/14/perspective-on-technolog-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the best parts that I recall from Bootstrapping Startups with Shridhar Shukla, Tarun Malaviya, and Anand Soman at the Pune OpenCoffee Club. Between them, the panelists have over 8 startup avataars which were bootstrapped and VC-funded. I have had to paraphrase some of the quotes &#8211; at the same time, trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1212&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Power Yoga startup in the city</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/08/10/a-power-yoga-startup-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met a young Canadian girl, Daphnee, who has chosen Pune for her startup too. She has been a yoga practitioner for over 8 years and came to India in 2005. She has been traveling and teaching in different parts of the country and finally decided to start up in Pune. I enrolled for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1178&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling and Startup Success</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/24/startups-and-bowling-pins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success in new markets for Startups is a lot like Bowling, where you have to hit the right pins first with all the right angles in order to get a ricochet effect and down all the other pins. Focus your energy on the right pin, but don&#8217;t lose the big picture.  &#8212; Paraphrased from our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1165&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lipikaar&#8217;s a big hit at Proto!</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/22/lipikaar-at-proto4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjali Gupta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 48 hours of non-stop talking, interspersed with few hours of sleep, we&#8217;re finally getting back to answering an avalanche of unread emails. We presented Lipikaar at the summer edition of Proto IV 2008 (July 18-19, at I.I.T. Delhi) along with 15 other finalists. Here&#8217;s a video of the 6 minute presentation we made to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1150&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Energy Unlimited</title>
		<link>http://sukshma.net/2008/07/04/have-energy-unlimited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Santosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every Pune OpenCoffee Club meet, you can&#8217;t help but notice the energy that Entrepreneurs bring with them. It is exciting and infectious. However, the Pune OCC is proving to be more than just about youth and learning. On July 3rd, Neeraj Arora of Google&#8217;s Corporate M&#38;A wing, Neill Brownstein and Anjana Kaul of Footprint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sukshma.net&amp;blog=19474&amp;post=1148&amp;subd=sdawara&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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