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		<title>HTML5 vs. Native Apps &#8211; digital media companies leading the charge back to the browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Scott Jacobson In the last couple of days, two notable digital media services released HTML5 applications optimized for iPad that provide a native app-like experience while bypassing Apple&#8217;s app store. Yesterday, VUDU launched a browser-based, streaming video service, optimized for iPad. Today, Amazon launched Kindle Cloud Drive, enabling customers to buy, download and read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oren Etzioni wants technologists to rethink Internet search</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madrona Venture Partner and University of Washington Professor Oren Etzioni published an article in the science journal Nature last week outlines the way we should rethink how Internet search performs and interacts with users.  It is a fabulous article and echoes Oren&#8217;s long-standing leadership in Internet search.  The New York Times summarized Oren&#8217;s article here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEO Spotlight, Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About the Entrepreneur]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greg Gottesman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madrona Venture Group CEO Spotlight, Mike Fridgen CEO Decide from Madrona Venture Group on Vimeo. Madrona is starting a series of video interviews spotlighting different CEOs we get the chance to work with. For our first video, Greg Gottesman interviewed Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide. Mike talks about being addicted to startups, what he&#8217;s learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we&#8217;re excited about Decide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Picture Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[-by Scott Jacobson One of the best parts of being an early-stage investor is getting to be part of the creation process. Partnering with very smart and passionate entrepreneurs to take the early seeds of an idea and turn those seeds into products that solve interesting, tangible customer problems. I have really enjoyed working with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirteen key characteristics of a great start up culture</title>
		<link>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2009/05/thirteen-key-characteristics-of-a-great-start-up-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2009/05/thirteen-key-characteristics-of-a-great-start-up-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 20:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[VC Land]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the introduction to my guest post on TechFlash today. For the last decade, I have been convinced that the three most important factors in determining the success of a start-up are (1) team, (2) product or service, and (3) market (timing, size, etc.). Take an A+ entrepreneur, with a great idea for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a great CEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting the Right Driver on the Bus In Good to Great, Jim Collins recommends that one of the first steps in building a great company is to get the right people on (and off) the “bus.” Not surprisingly, therefore, selecting the driver of the bus, the CEO, is certainly one of the most important tasks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Advantage of the Downturn</title>
		<link>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2008/12/taking-advantage-of-the-downturn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2008/12/taking-advantage-of-the-downturn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Picture Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you have been avoiding your in-box in the past month or so, you probably got the widely circulated email containing &#8220;the world is coming to an end&#8221; slide deck from a major venture capital firm. The essence of the presentation is that if you survive the current economic meltdown, you win. That means cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will History Repeat Itself?</title>
		<link>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2008/10/will-history-repeat-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madrona.com/index.php/2008/10/will-history-repeat-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Picture Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The famous Spanish philosopher, George Santayana,  once remarked that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  So, a natural question in these times of financial turmoil, when it is hard to stave off a sense of impending doom, is: how will this "bust" be different from (or the same as) the dot com bust that began in 2000?  More precisely, what will be the differences and similarities as they relate to venture financing and early stage companies in the Pacific Northwest?]]></description>
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