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		<title>The Unresolved Egyptian Revolution: How Filmmaker Mustafa Eck Needs Your Help To Tell The Untold Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s set the stage. On February 12, 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt. Just one month prior, on January 17th, a man lit himself on fire in front of Egypt&#8217;s parliament building in downtown Cairo &#8211; propelling the country&#8217;s people on a mission to overthrow Mubarak and his regime. Beginning on January 25th, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/12/29/the-unresolved-egyptian-revolution-how-filmmaker-mustafa-eck-needs-your-help-to-tell-the-untold-story/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Sklar Rallies New York City&#8217;s Tech World For The Raise Cache Music Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started hearing the buzz just two weeks ago. Rachel Sklar was making a music video (see it towards the end of this post) for the Raise Cache fashion show, to benefit hackNY. Unfortunately, I was far away at Clarkson University&#8230; studying hard for a Fluid Mechanics exam I had the same day of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/11/28/rachel-sklar-rallies-new-york-citys-tech-world-for-the-raise-cache-music-video/</link>
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		<title>The Up-And-Down Struggle Of Starting 3 Companies: The Lessons Matt Ackerson Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never expected to find a mentor for my career when the cashier randomly included a magazine with my order of textbooks. It was September 2008, and I had just bought my textbooks for Clarkson University. It was in that very magazine that I first read about student entrepreneur Matt Ackerson. Digging around, I found him on Facebook and decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/10/31/the-up-and-down-struggle-of-starting-3-companies-the-lessons-matt-ackerson-learned/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Steve Jobs. The Godfather. A hero of mine because of you&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collin Yarbrough has been my roommate and my main man at Clarkson University since freshman year. Almost straight away, he introduced me to the Steve Jobs keynotes (or, &#8220;Stevenotes&#8220;) and made each one a scheduled, required viewing in Cubley Hall 108. In no time, I was hooked. Today, he found an email that I sent to him on June 4, 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/10/19/steve-jobs-the-godfather-a-hero-of-mine-because-of-you/</link>
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		<title>Yes, You Can Party For A Living: Meet Gary Lachance, Founder of The Decentralized Dance Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, a movement is taking place. A Party revolution. It all started with Gary Lachance throwing some pretty insane parties. Today, the parties have grown to tens of thousands of people. In a few weeks, they are bringing the ridiculous fun to the US for the &#8216;Strictly Business Tour&#8216;. Along with his co-founder and fellow Canadian, Tom (pictured on the left), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/10/18/yes-you-can-party-for-a-living-meet-gary-lachance-founder-of-the-decentralized-dance-party/</link>
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		<title>How I Got Introduced To Robert &#8220;@Scobleizer&#8221; Scoble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My mentor/friend Larry Chiang inspired me to write this story. It is a story from personal experience of building genuine friendships with mentors, and the value of learning from them. Last year at the inaugural TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, I was unexpectedly introduced (via text message) to the famed man of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/04/12/how-i-got-introduced-to-robert-scobleizer-scoble/</link>
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		<title>The Sports Stock Market Has Arrived. Memo to Jeremy Levine: We Owe You One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sports fanatics: may I have your attention, please. Have you ever thought &#8216;if there was a Wall Street for sports, I know I&#8217;d be the Gordon Gekko of that stock market&#8216;&#8230;? If you&#8217;re as passionate as my boy Dave West professes to be, then I may have found your dream-come-true. Meet StarStreet: the stock market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/04/05/the-sports-stock-market-has-arrived-memo-to-jeremy-levine-we-owe-you-one/</link>
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		<title>Introducing The X Factor&#8217;s Brand New Redesign *Thanks To PetoVera*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know how much energy I have right now? One post certainly won&#8217;t do justice to how pumped I am about the redesign Matt Ackerson, Paolo Roa and the PetoVera team did for my blog, &#8216;The X Factor&#8217;. I am fired up. Motivated. This is only the beginning. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/03/31/introducing-the-x-factors-brand-new-redesign-thanks-to-petovera/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfounding, With A Twist of Innovation: Interview with Sponzu Founder Natalie Kaminski</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The X Factor&#8217;s brand new illmatic redesign! Let&#8217;s just say&#8230;.thanks a MILLION to Petovera Design. As an aspiring entrepreneur myself, I think one of the best ways to learn is to go directly to the source and study the stories of founders building startups. Wait &#8217;til you read Natalie&#8217;s interview. Natalie Kaminski was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/03/29/crowdfounding-with-a-twist-of-innovation-interview-with-sponzu-founder-natalie-kaminski/</link>
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		<title>What Socialwok&#8217;s Private Beta Taught Founder Ming Yong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the 4th (very noisy &#8211; sorry!) segment of my interview with the Founder and CEO of Socialwok, Ming Yong! Socialwok is a collaborative social feed built on Google apps. This is a story about what Socialwok learned from its private beta, and how it changed the way they thought about their initial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnexleyonline.com/2011/03/09/what-socialwoks-private-beta-taught-founder-ming-yong/</link>
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