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	<title>The Bridge</title>
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	<description>France - Silicon Valley et le monde des start-ups</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The 11 Oxygen Balloons: story of an inspiring women entrepreneur, Maria Sipka</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=307</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Her name is Maria Sipka and she is the most inspiring women entrepreneur I have met in the last 6 months. You put her in a room and her passion and happiness litteraly radiate on and touch every single perso. A real &#8217;storm&#8217;  



Maria kindly shared with me a post about her journey building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My selection of articles of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in this beautiful Pearl..

 
Luckily, some articles about happiness, success and optimism this week&#8230;We all know how these three are undoubtly linked and how important it is to go back to these basics in periods of crisis like the one we are going through.
I will also add this great article from the NYT here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls in Tech&#8230;What&#8217;s in for girls in Business Development?</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=283</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit my mixed feelings about entering a room full of 150 women last week for my first Girls in Tech Event in the city. Somewhat not accustomed to a higher and more strident tone of voices/brouhaha
150 women all ears to listen to the amazing and inspiring panel of the -female- business developers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s must-read</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=285</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=285#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out here
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		<title>When the best UK software start-ups visit Silicon Valley..</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=277</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=277#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[..they can not state enough how Europe still has a long way to go&#8230;
US is still far ahead, at least in terms of market size and access to funding.
I have had the chance to host the UK WEB Mission at Plug and Play yesterday - amazing experience- and we discussed around a panel the challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For those who are skeptical about Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=274</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[High-tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I definitely have to tell you all about my sudden and unexpected adoption of Twitter&#8230;Reluctance followed by exitment followed by disappointment.&#8230;
But not really willing to writte the 30th post you will read about Twitter TODAY (3 on VentureBeat, 1 on Mashable and Techcrunch, 2 on TheNextWeb)
Found this funny video,nice caricature that will appeal to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screening early stage start-ups: key factors</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=257</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=257#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[start-ups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[valuation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the start-ups world, screening has a very broad meaning.
If you are looking for investment or partners at the very early stage, you have to expect your start-up to be screened a thousand times before anybody consider engaging further with you. Screening can take 5 minutes up to a three weeks (due diligence), but either way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEMO 09&#8230; looking for analysis!</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=261</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DEMO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pearltrees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DEMO 09 is usually a not-to-be-missed conference in the high tech world.
Last years it featured 70 of the top high tech start-ups in this world in front of &#8216;la creme&#8217; of the high tech community - 700 attendees- , but this year in only featured 39 with about 500 attendees.
And has surprisingly made little noise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world has never needed more leaders than today</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=242</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=242#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[E-Bay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Times are so though, every single business is challenged by this crisis, from innovative start-ups to giants like E-Bay. 
I have had the chance to hear a speech about leadership from the new CEO of E-Bay John Donahoe couple of days ago at Plug and Play. What is a good leader? What key decisions have to be taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most beautiful picture&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=240</link>
		<comments>http://www.smartpressreview.com/?p=240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maud</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[High-tech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of Paris HERE
A beautiful and amazing creation, I am still trying to figure out what is the technology behind this&#8230; Running investigations, but if you have an idea let me know!
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