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		<title>Will Silicon Alley Grow Out of the Valley&#8217;s Shadow?</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2009/09/01/will-silicon-alley-grow-out-of-the-valleys-shadow/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2009/09/01/will-silicon-alley-grow-out-of-the-valleys-shadow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology and Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks I talk to still despise the &#8220;Silicon Alley&#8221; term to describe the New York technology scene. The connotation that New York City&#8217;s second fiddle, technology innovation only occurs in the &#8220;alleys&#8221; of the Flatiron District is outdated and inaccurate in their eyes. Others, obviously embrace what the Alley has become. However, the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andreessen: Start-ups Not in the Valley are 3 &#8211; 9 Months Behind</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2009/07/22/andreessen-start-ups-not-in-the-valley-are-3-9-months-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2009/07/22/andreessen-start-ups-not-in-the-valley-are-3-9-months-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fortune]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen,  co-founder and general partner of the newly formed VC house Andreessen Horowitz, was one of the highlights of day 1 at Brainstorm: TECH. The current Fortune cover subject, and former TIME cover boy, drew laughs from the audience for comparing the former IBM to the former Soviet Union. He also received some candid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Kafka Leaves SAI to Join Kara &amp; Walt at All Things Digital</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/09/18/peter-kafka-leaves-sai-to-join-kara-walt-at-all-things-digital/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/09/18/peter-kafka-leaves-sai-to-join-kara-walt-at-all-things-digital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital media relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VCs and M&A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Blodget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kara Swisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Kafka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Alley Insider]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s Dow Jones digital unit (AKA: Kara Swisher, Walt Mossberg &#38; All Things Digital) got their New York beachhead in prying away Peter Kafka from the Silicon Alley Insider and Henry Blodget yesterday afternoon. Blodget broke the news with a post yesterday evening which tongue-in-cheek&#8217;ly implied that Walt and Kara had stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Media Mailbag: Hellos &amp; Goodbyes</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/08/04/monday-media-mailbag-hellos-goodbyes/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/08/04/monday-media-mailbag-hellos-goodbyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mainstream media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VCs and M&A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Lashinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erika Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forbes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin Goodbye DKNY: In my interview with David Kirkpatrick (or DKNY as some of his Fortune colleagues call him), leading up to Brainstorm:TECH, we touched on the leave he&#8217;s going on for his upcoming book The Facebook Effect. Last Friday Kirkpatrick published his final Fast Forward column, ending its 6 and a half year run. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As VC’s Go Green: Venture Backed IPO’s Hit 30 Year Low</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/06/30/as-vc%e2%80%99s-go-green-venture-backed-ipo%e2%80%99s-hit-30-year-low/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/06/30/as-vc%e2%80%99s-go-green-venture-backed-ipo%e2%80%99s-hit-30-year-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin While technology start-ups still point to the general weakness of financial markets as the reasoning behind not going public; new findings by the National Venture Capital Association may indicate a larger trend in where VC’s are allocating their investors’ dollars. As Matt Richtel of the New York Times reported on Saturday: “In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP MicroHoo!: Yang &amp; Board High-Five as Stock Nosedives</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/05/05/rip-microhoo-yang-board-high-five-as-stock-nosedives/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/05/05/rip-microhoo-yang-board-high-five-as-stock-nosedives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin While some of us were enjoying a nice little Saturday (A trip to Home Depot to get some wall paper, maybe a stop at Bed Bath &#38; Beyond), Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang were working OT to get the Microsoft and Yahoo! deal done. However, a funny thing occurred sometime in-between them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Gives Signs of a Brighter Day(Economy)</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/04/18/google-give-signs-of-a-brighter-day-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/04/18/google-give-signs-of-a-brighter-day-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding & Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Go-Go Days for Google]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin The economy and the &#8220;idea&#8221; of being in a recession are on everyone’s mind. You don’t have to flip past page one in any major daily or the cover of any business publication to be reminded by it. Although I recognize that the current economic situation is sub-par I do somewhat believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Lack of Exit Options Killing Innovation?</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/04/17/is-a-lack-of-exit-options-killing-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/04/17/is-a-lack-of-exit-options-killing-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VCs and M&A]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exit Options]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Wilson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin There was some great debate in the blogosphere last week on how a lack of exit strategies for start-ups, that need to return on venture money, is killing innovation. The debate was spawned by a post from Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. In his post Wilson opinions that the IPO market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Valley Comes to Beverly Hills</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/03/03/the-valley-comes-to-beverly-hills/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2008/03/03/the-valley-comes-to-beverly-hills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Austin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racetalkblog.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Austin Los Angeles is newly becoming a technology hot spot.  Led by the digital entertainment revolution, it has become one of the next big markets lauded by venture capitalists eyeing the next JibJab or Flux.  I&#8217;m starting to wonder when they are going to launch the Silicon Hills Insider?  Laura Holson has the latest chapter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Coast v. West Coast</title>
		<link>http://racetalkblog.com/2007/10/02/east-coast-v-west-coast/</link>
		<comments>http://racetalkblog.com/2007/10/02/east-coast-v-west-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>racetalk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VCs and M&A]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Carla In case you all missed it, New England Web 2.0 companies are raising big bucks and overshadowing our West Coast friends. Comparatively, New England raised $11.5 million more than San Francisco in the first half of 2007, which in the grand scheme of things isn’t going to turn Boston into the technology hub overnight.  [...]]]></description>
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