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	<title>Yu-kai Chou</title>
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	<description>The Journey to Being Influential</description>
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		<title>10 Company Culture Principles: The RewardMe DNA</title>
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Culture Management is essential for growth stage companies
Our company has been through many cycles and products throughout the years, but it&#8217;s the passion and bond between teammates that have always carried on with us. That will continue to carry on no matter what size we grow to. We are a team, and we are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/10-company-culture-principles-rewardme-dna/</link>
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		<title>2011 Review for RewardMe &#8211; the Year of Foundation</title>
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2011: The Year of Foundation for RewardMe

2011 finally ended. It went by faster and slower than I expected. Slower because so many things happened in this year and we got so much done, and faster because it felt like an instant and there were still so much more that we wanted to do!

This is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/2011-review-rewardme-year-foundation/</link>
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		<title>The Mysterious Case of the Startup CEO</title>
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What the **** is our CEO doing???
In the past 6 years of being an entrepreneur, I’ve had many small, private conversations with Startup CEOs, and I noticed a pretty interesting but common trend.  I initially thought this was more of a unique experience of my own and very few people had the same issue, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/mysterious-case-startup-ceo/</link>
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		<title>Chou&#8217;s Talk at the Stanford US-Asian Technology Management Center</title>
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This is the talk that I did at Stanford University on April 19th, 4:15PM at the NVIDIA Auditorium.
The topic was focused on working on startups for entrepreneurs that came from Asia.

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		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/chous-talk-stanford-usasian-technology-management-center/</link>
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		<title>How to become Influential within your Circle</title>
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How to be influential within your existing friends
There are many people who are not interested in becoming powerful and impactful in the world, but almost everyone wants to be influential and respected among their friends and peers.
However, the majority of the people do not become that, mostly because they are so comfortable with their existing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/power/influential-circle/</link>
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		<title>Yu-kai Chou&#8217;s Guest Lecturer Talk in Stanford University</title>
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I&#8217;ve had the honor of being invited to be a guest lecturer to talk about Social Media at a Stanford CS course on personal branding. Many of my Twitter friends wanted me to post a video, so here it is  
A few things:
1) My friend who taped it couldn&#8217;t get the camera to work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/yukai-chous-guest-lecturer-talk-stanford-university/</link>
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		<title>How to Master almost Anything in Life</title>
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Chou Notes
Printers suck.
I&#8217;ve had some decent successes in my life in a variety of tasks/hobbies/work that I do. I cut out a bunch of it in the video just because it is too long and it sounds braggy (but I needed some credibility for &#8220;almost anything&#8221;)
The three things that can get you to do something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/career-coaching/master/</link>
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		<title>The First 90 Days of Being an Entrepreneur</title>
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In most people&#8217;s minds, the hardest part about being an entrepreneur is starting. That&#8217;s actually not true. Starting is the easiest part and it just requires you to get off your butt and start doing things. You only think it&#8217;s the hardest part because that&#8217;s the part YOU are stuck on.
For that reason, here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/entrepreneurship/90-days-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<title>Want a Real Life? Be an Entrepreneur</title>
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Living the life of an entrepreneur is tough. You work your butt off and get paid almost nothing for years, and the chances are you will fail at the end. Living the entrepreneurial life is definitely not the &#8220;easy&#8221; life. 
However, in my opinion, it is the most fulfilling one. 
I believe that being an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/entrepreneurship/real-life-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<title>The Lazy Man&#8217;s Way to Become Successful: Start Early</title>
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There&#8217;s always going to be people smarter than you and people dumber than you
Everyone wants to be successful in life. However, not everyone has what it takes to get there. Life is competitive, and to constantly keep up and excel over your peers is a tough and struggling battle.
Sure, some people believe that they can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/power/lazy-mans-way-becoming-successful/</link>
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		<title>How I made a Blogpost go Viral (7 Tips)</title>
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7 Tips to make your blogpost go Viral
Everyone wants to write content that goes viral and spreads like wildfire. However, it doesn&#8217;t always happen. Mostly by luck, I was able to create some content that went viral.
The blogpost I will refer to here is: Seesmic will Destory Tweetdeck
1. Say something controversial in the title (but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/social-media/blogpost-viral-7-tips/</link>
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		<title>Staying Happy and Positive makes you Valuable</title>
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Chou Notes
1. Being happy and positive often is a talent, and it actively makes your group stronger. Create value by being happy.
2. When you get criticized for your work, as long as the person is not trying to personally hurt you, don&#8217;t take it personally and thank them for pointing out how you can create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/life-lessons/staying-happy-positive-valuable/</link>
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		<title>My new project: RewardMe (Angels pay attention)</title>
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(Note: the deployment of our equipment will happen next Monday November 24th, 2010. Please don&#8217;t download the App and use it before then!)
Hey guys,
It&#8217;s been a while since I updated on my startup life. Some of you found out what I&#8217;m doing outside on your own (very impressed!) but I&#8217;d still like to update those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/entrepreneurship/rewardme-investors/</link>
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		<title>Won first place at the TWiST &#8211; LA event and chatted with the Influential Jason Calacanis</title>
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Last week I went to Los Angeles and did a pitch at the TWiST &#8211; LA event. I won first place out of 10 Startups and got the chance to chat with Jason Calacanis, who is very influential in the startup world and blogosphere, on his live show about Viralogy. Pretty awesome.
Well, just wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/won-place-twist-la-event-chatted-influential-jason-calacanis/</link>
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		<title>My comments on Jay Chou&#8217;s Concert</title>
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Chou Notes
Some comments I have about Jay Chou&#8217;s concert. I&#8217;m not a big fan, but I do think he&#8217;s super super talented. 
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		<link>http://yukaichou.com/chou/comments-jay-chous-concert/</link>
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		<title>A New Metrics Era: Social Media and Qualitative Traffic</title>
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The 3 Qualitative Metrics of Traffic
A lot of websites out there just measure traffic. Traffic is a quantitative number that is easy to measure and helps you see important trends and how successful campaigns are. However, especially for sites that need some kind of conversion like signing up or buying a product, undifferentiated traffic can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/social-media/metrics-era-social-media-qualitative-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Persistence: Failing your way to success</title>
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We need to become babies
Everyone wants to be successful. Unless you are sick and perverted, you do not like failure. However, in order to grow and learn, you must not only be tolerant of failure, you must welcome it.
And when you do fail, you must learn to pick yourself up as fast as possible and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/life-lessons/persistence-failing-success/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing Interview with CrowdBooster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CrowdBooster
CrowdBooster is one of the best Twitter Apps that analyze how your Twitter account is doing and how to make it even more effective. It&#8217;s the perfect balance between not having overwhelming statistics on every little ratio, and having enough depth that it actually becomes useful. A lot of tools out there are more like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/social-media/social-media-marketing-interview-crowdbooster/</link>
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		<title>One-Two Punch and the Uppercut: The Art of Cold-Emailing</title>
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Cold-Emailing is frustrating
Have you ever had the frustrating experience where you emailed someone you didn&#8217;t know very well, and never got a response? Feels pretty bad right? No one really likes cold-emailing, but in order to strive for more opportunities that wouldn&#8217;t regularly show up at your door (customers, mentors, advisors, investors, etc etc), you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/networking/onetwo-punch-uppercut-art-coldemailing/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be afraid to Ask</title>
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It is more blessed to give than to receive
Before I start to write about this topic, I&#8217;m going to assume that you are a good natured, helpful, and considerate person who is not trying to suck out the life blood out of everyone around him. If you think my assumption is incorrect, go back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yukaichou.com/power/afraid/</link>
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