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	<description>Set a course for high tech success</description>
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		<title>Aligning Business and Software Development Needs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Software Development Best Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DaggerBoard is frequently approached by early stage companies with questions or issues surrounding product development. These issues range from: (1) We can’t seem to get products properly defined, to (2) Our releases are always late, to (3) Our software has so many bugs that our customers are unhappy with us, to (4) Why does product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Readiness &#8211; Findings from HIFin Assessments</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/06/funding-readiness-findings-from-daggerboard-hifin-assessments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daggerboard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fund raising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For an early stage high-tech entrepreneur, fund raising is always an interesting topic.  For some (especially in the current environment) just the mention of the topic raises the blood pressure and invokes lots of difficult questions.  How disruptive will it be on operations?  Venture funding or Angel?   Will investors take control?  What should I cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promote Women to Increase Profits</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/05/promote-women-to-increase-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Women currently earn 57% of all bachelors’ degrees, 50% of professional and doctoral degrees and hold half the nation’s jobs.  Yet, women remain grossly under-represented in leadership positions where they hold only 18% as reported by The White House Project Report, 2009.  The numbers are even worse in technology companies with the top 200 California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If It&#8217;s Not Changing It Must Be Broken</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/04/transitions-if-its-not-changing-it-must-be-broken/</link>
		<comments>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/04/transitions-if-its-not-changing-it-must-be-broken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daggerboard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having run and worked with many companies that are experiencing growing pains, one thing that is very clear to me is that the CEO must be constantly changing the focus of the company as the organization goes through the various stages of maturity.
Just as in child rearing, different approaches are needed for a company in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection in the mirror. CEO, are you running a lifestyle business or building a growth organization?</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/03/reflection-in-the-mirror-ceo-are-you-running-a-lifestyle-business-or-building-a-growth-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daggerboard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing Growth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It amazes me just how many small self (friends and family) or angel-funded software, internet and SaaS companies are out there that seem to just be flat-lined or oscillating in the $3 to $10M revenue segment. They are in every market sector you look at &#8211;  XYZ software, a business in the (fill in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the Exit &#8211; CEO&#8217;s Need to start Early</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/03/preparing-for-the-exit-ceos-need-to-start-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daggerboard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exit Strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The “when” and “how” of the exit stage of a business poses one of the biggest opportunities and challenges for a software company CEO. Unfortunately, many address the exit much too late – and often only when they get an acquisition offer that forces them into a reactive mode, wondering if the offer at hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction &#8211; Our first post to the DaggerBoard Blog</title>
		<link>http://daggerboardadvisors.com/blog/2010/02/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daggerboard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nautical Nonsense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone and welcome to the DaggerBoard Advisors blog.  I am Dennis Clerke, one of the advisors at DaggerBoard.  Along with my partners, we have been working with a broad array of emerging software companies since we started the company nearly three years ago.  My colleagues and I will be posting here on the blog [...]]]></description>
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