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	<title>Florida Venture Blog &#187; 2011</title>
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	<description>by Dan Rua...just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs...</description>
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		<title>Startup Employee Stock Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve wanted to share a post about entrepreneur stock option planning for some time; one of the standard discussions I have with every founder I back shortly after we close funding together. Surprisingly there aren&#8217;t many thorough posts on the topic, but I did find a quality series posted by John Nesheim back in 2007. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon EC2 Cloud Outage: Hiccup or Wakeup Call?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Amazon Web Service&#8217;s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was down&#8230;not just minutes, or hours, but for days. In the process it took down a significant chunk of new web services like Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, and multiple IZEA properties such as WeReward, SponsoredTweets &#38; SocialSpark. Those were long hours and days&#8230; It was frustrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2011/04/amazon-ec2-cloud-outage.html</link>
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		<title>FlexiSpy, ShopKick, Roving Bugs and a New Breed of Spyware?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given all the coverage of iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile apps lately, I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;ve seen relatively little discussion of the new privacy issues some apps present &#8212; particularly when they leverage phone resources such as the microphone.  Microphone spying may have been a small issue when many desktops didn&#8217;t have microphones or microphones [...]]]></description>
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