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		<title>[Mistake] Everyone is right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The feeling of insecurity crops up quite a number of times when starting up, especially in the early days. It&#8217;s both exciting and scary, like how an 8-year old kid feels when left home alone the first time, for a couple of hours. This fear sometimes affects the self-confidence which makes everyone around you appear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2012/01/everyone/</link>
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		<title>Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made (still continue to) a lot of mistakes while building Interviewstreet &#8211; bad product decisions, terrible demos, wrong hires, screwed up relationships and many more. Morale of founders is probably the biggest determinant of how long a startup will sail. Every failure dents the morale a little bit and when it hits zero, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2012/01/mistakes/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s this valley all about?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about this magical place called &#8216;valley&#8217; to start a company, so what does this magical place contain? #1 Focus Startups are lonely, tough and very hard to build. It&#8217;s also highly unlikely that you might hit off with your very first product/idea. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of YC companies that have pivoted 2-3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/12/valley/</link>
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		<title>Deprivation and pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title might sound sober but ironically these two are strongly tied to happiness and achieving goals at a later stage. I&#8217;m reading an amazing book on psychology of humans, love, etc. which also somewhat states the above. Here&#8217;s an interesting snippet from the book &#8220;A 30-year old financial analyst complained she&#8217;s procrastinating a lot despite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/11/deprivation-and-pain/</link>
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		<title>What drives founders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A vast majority of web entrepreneurs want to be millionnaires. It would be a lie and even economically bad if it wasn&#8217;t so. But, is money the driving force for the founders? I don&#8217;t think so. Early stage &#8211; when you start building the product. Making money from the startup is either a secondary motive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/07/what-drives-founders/</link>
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		<title>Building faster horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses&#8221; &#8211; Henry Ford This is a famous quote that is often misinterpreted. So, does that mean, you should never ask people what they want? as opposed to the general startup advice that says &#8216;Ask people what they want&#8216;. I think the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/07/building-faster-horses/</link>
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		<title>Why the 37signals style of work doesn&#8217;t apply to startups?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heads up: I&#8217;m a big fan of David &#038; Jason and this post deals with the beginning stage of startups I&#8217;ve been following their blog posts, talks, books for quite sometime and without any doubt they&#8217;re doing amazing work. I agree with most of the things they say except for their stress on work-life balance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/06/why-the-37signals-style-of-work-dont-apply-to-startups/</link>
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		<title>The Psychology of web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at Starbucks waiting for a demo when I bumped onto a random magazine that was lying on the table. I was flipping through it when a page that said &#8216;Psychological behavior of humans&#8216; caught my attention. I started reading and subsequently had a meeting with Garry on UX designing. The resulting discussions &#038; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/06/the-psychology-of-web/</link>
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		<title>The extra money in angel investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term angel investment is getting skewed everyday. I was talking to a person the other day who was raising $500K (~2.2C INR) as an &#8220;angel investment&#8221;, seriously? I think the word angel is dying slowly and currently refers to super angel. However, I believe there are still companies that would want to raise somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/05/the-extra-money-in-angel-investment/</link>
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		<title>Good vs Great &#8211; Chaos theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a thought that&#8217;s been troubling my mind for sometime &#8211; what does greatness mean and how do people get to that point ? Is greatness measured relative to oneself (how much you can possibly achieve) or with respect to the outside world ? I believe it&#8217;s the former one. You keep bettering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rvivek.com/2011/04/good-vs-great-chaos-theory/</link>
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