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	<title>Eric Edelstein</title>
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	<description>evly.com CEO, Serial South African Internet entrepreneur, Occasional Angel Investor, Crowdsourcing Fan</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>1Time Airline as a Media Company?</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/27/1time-airline-as-a-media-company/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/27/1time-airline-as-a-media-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a small shareholder in 1Time airline, and have watched 1Time&#8217;s share price climb leading up to the World Cup soccer, and fall ever since. The company now has a market cap of around R80 Million. (at time of writing).
To me, that&#8217;s a really low valuation for a such a large company, so I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Fringe &#038; iPlex Wake Cape Town Up?</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/14/will-the-fringe-iplex-wake-cape-town-up/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/14/will-the-fringe-iplex-wake-cape-town-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[iPlex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Fringe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Great Debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About 2 months ago, I started curating a weekly newsletter called &#8220;The Startup Digest&#8221; which lets Capetonians (and visitors to Cape Town) know what events are happening for those interested in the Tech space. And week after week I&#8217;m disappointed by how few events there are to bring everyone together for information sharing, knowledge, fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checkers Logo in 2012</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/13/checkers-logo-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/13/checkers-logo-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[checkers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the Checkers advert on TV where a bunch of kids speak about how Checkers used to have only one type of cheese - Cheddar - but how Checkers is now a Cheese heaven with over 400 types of cheese.
I really enjoyed the ad, and it was humorous and fun, especially the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are people not on Facebook losing touch with reality?</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/10/are-people-not-on-facebook-losing-touch-with-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/10/are-people-not-on-facebook-losing-touch-with-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A large argument took place at a friends dinner table in JHB on Tuesday night. The discussion wasn&#8217;t whether people were spending too much time on Facebook or whether Facebook was a waste of time.
Rather, one of the people at the table, who had previously used Facebook, announced that he was no longer using Facebook, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do companies really want constructive engagement with their customers?</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/08/do-companies-really-want-constructive-engagement-with-their-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/11/08/do-companies-really-want-constructive-engagement-with-their-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[what i'm thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[constructive engagement]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[entertainment engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[facebook fan pages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen what Starbucks is doing with their customers? They’re asking their customers to suggest ways to improve their products, and also to suggest ways of improving the experience when the customers purchase the products.

evly has created an app for owners of Facebook fan pages, that not only lets the Facebook fans suggest ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/09/07/why-emerging-markets-need-startup-accelerators-to-produce-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/09/07/why-emerging-markets-need-startup-accelerators-to-produce-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[accelerators]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier  this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup  accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech  entrepreneurs that passed through their programmes.
The formal definition of an accelerator is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why raising funding in Silicon Valley is a big deal</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/06/18/why-raising-funding-in-silicon-valley-is-a-big-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/06/18/why-raising-funding-in-silicon-valley-is-a-big-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[angels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[raising funding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[series a]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Moved to:
http://ericedelstein.com/paid-thoughts/why-raising-funding-in-silicon-valley-is-a-big-deal/

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		<title>Tactics Blog Comment Spammers Use</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/05/24/tactics-blog-comment-spammers-use/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2011/05/24/tactics-blog-comment-spammers-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[what i'm thinking]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[comment spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy few months living in San Francisco &#38; Silicon Valley (a blog post on life in the valley is way overdue), and I checked my comments for the first time in ages.
There were HUNDREDS of comments which at first glance looked genuine, but because I saw them in one go, I straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only friends of Dave McClure raise funding!</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2010/11/03/only-friends-of-dave-mcclure-raise-funding-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2010/11/03/only-friends-of-dave-mcclure-raise-funding-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Dave McClure]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ericedelstein.com/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you want to raise funding? Either an angel round or a Series A round,  from the HOT investors. An angel or VC fund in either New York, Boston  or Silicon Valley? Yes, there have been cases where entrepreneurs have  gone to the “Send me your pitch” page, and emerge with bucket-loads [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://ericedelstein.com/2010/11/03/only-friends-of-dave-mcclure-raise-funding-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>The Social Network - inspiration or igloo?</title>
		<link>http://ericedelstein.com/2010/11/01/the-social-network-inspiration-or-igloo/</link>
		<comments>http://ericedelstein.com/2010/11/01/the-social-network-inspiration-or-igloo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[evly]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[what i'm doing]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[the social network]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg is a Billionaire. Not bad for someone just 25 years old (he was born on  May 14, 1984)! Nearly everyone in the world has heard of his company, which was launched only a few years ago - it&#8217;s called Facebook, and it&#8217;s the biggest Social Network currently in the world - with over [...]]]></description>
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