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		<title>Alternative top 5 ways in which Twitter will change the world</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my alternative top 5 ways in which I think Twitter will change the world: 1) People will have advanced warning as to which of their new friends are going to end up irritating the hell out of them. 2) People will no longer applaud something by clapping, they will drum their fingers as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassroots Soccer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently introduced to a great bunch of guys who are using soccer as a tool to drive home AIDS awareness and prevention programs in Africa and the Caribbean. Grassroots Soccer&#8217;s programs use footballers as role models, and leverage the popularity of soccer in order to engage hard to reach young people. There curriculum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seedcamp Mentoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time last week in London (UK) where I had the opportunity to spend a day at Seedcamp and get involved in mentoring some of Europe&#8217;s up and coming web and wireless businesses. There were 20 companies and about 80 mentors ! Mentors were split into groups of eight and each group spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What have you leveraged today ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare that we come a cross a revolutionary idea these days. Most of the ideas we see are part of the ongoing evolution of internet based products and services. Ev.o.lu.tion &#8211; A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. The evolutionary process employs significant leverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep it simple !</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We come across many interesting ideas for products and/or businesses but more often than not it requires a lot of digging around to actually to find that gem of an idea. Maybe that digging is part of the value an investor in start-up&#8217;s is expected to add, but as an entrepreneur it pays if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betting on the success of a start-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full-time entrepreneur, part time angels investment instigator and one of our partners at MSU, Austin Hill, likes to ask an entrepreneur looking for finance: &#8220;What&#8217;s the bet i&#8217;m making with this investment ?&#8221; It&#8217;s a great question &#8230; but what a lot of first time entrepreneurs don&#8217;t appreciate is that the answer to the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founder get Founder campaign launch !</title>
		<link>http://johnstokes.net/?p=184</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finance Dept]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investissement Quebec is piling a lot of money into promoting the benefits of succession planning recently and whilst not directly relevant to our area of interest (start-up&#8217;s) there is a mutually important economic message: Get the money into the hands of the next generation of guardians in a timely, smooth manner ! I mentioned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re in stealth mode!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Dept]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone one who knows us well may have wondered why our friend Roberto Rocha described MSU in yesterday&#8217;s Montreal Gazette as: &#34;&#8230;an agency that encourages successful entrepreneurs to become angel investors.&#34; Whilst this is accurate (and provides material for another blog post, to come shortly), it&#8217;s not the full story &#8230; because we are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long or short of pitching angel investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standout Jobs, Cozimo and Xtranormal have recently been pitching their businesses at DEMO. These pitches were all well received by the audience &#8211; and one of the key reasons for that is that they were prepared specifically&#160; for that audience. In other words, to deliver a good pitch it is essential to understand the motivation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 &#8211; The Year of the Individual !</title>
		<link>http://johnstokes.net/?p=180</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Dept]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role models]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The start of a new year is often seen as both a time for reflection and for looking to the future. On reflection I recognise two major movements in Montreal in 2007: The &#34;self activation&#34; of Montreal&#8217;s entrepreneurial community &#8211; primarily through Barcamps, Democamps and Tech Breakfasts. The closing of the gap between the franchopone [...]]]></description>
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