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	<title>Adrian Bye - Thoughts From An Internet Entrepreneur In The Caribbean</title>
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		<title>How I Almost Crashed Our Helicopter In Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably a post I&#8217;ll regret making, but its just such an interesting story I thought I&#8217;d share.
Jeremy Johnson offered for me to spend some time in Haiti.  Since it was only a 90 minute helicopter ride away from Santo Domingo, I accepted.  I also wanted to see my friend who lives in Port [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2010/03/03/how-i-almost-crashed-our-helicopter-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Perspectives From Santo Domingo About Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was on the phone conducting a MeetInnovators interview when the earthquake happened.  My office rocked quite violently, and it felt like a 5.0 quake to me based on past earthquakes.  We saw on the news that it was in Haiti, and immediately there were tsunami warnings.  I was pretty concerned since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2010/01/27/perspectives-from-santo-domingo-about-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Startup Visa &#8211; My Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed some momentum building around the web for a startup visa.  I love the idea.  If it had been around 10 years ago, it would have changed my life.
My dream since I was 12 (~1985) was to move to the USA and make a startup.  Having grown up in Australia with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/09/24/startup-visa-my-story/</link>
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		<title>Links to My North Korea Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s all my north korea content from my trip from June 2009.
If you want one set of photos to look at, this is it:
http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea/9324440_ufPDF

My writeup of general perceptions:
http://adrianbye.com/2009/08/24/thoughts-from-north-korea/

North Korean People photos:
http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korean-People/9367206_FDEQs

Bizarre things from North Korea photos:
http://photos.adrianbye.com/Asia-Pacific/North-Korea-Bizarre-Photos/9373831_Qg5Pv

Videos:
Military type guys training for something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHtVBcuhN18
A female traffic police directing traffic (they don&#8217;t use traffic lights even though they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/09/05/links-to-my-north-korea-content/</link>
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		<title>Connect with Korean Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how to connect with north korean kids in a meaningful way &#8211; even if you don&#8217;t speak the language?
How about a way to &#8212; in a very small way &#8212; diffuse some of the tension between North Korea and the west?  A simple way to show them we&#8217;re not really as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/09/05/connect-with-korean-kids/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts from North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[North Korea is a fascinating place to visit.. Definitely one of the more memorable trips I&#8217;ve taken in my life.
My trip to North Korea made me appreciate my previous trips to Cuba.    Effectively this was just a propaganda tour &#8211; we had little to no contact with local people.  We didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/08/24/thoughts-from-north-korea/</link>
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		<title>The Incredible Cost of Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a 2 month trip of travelling.  When I arrived back, my primary computer wouldn&#8217;t work anymore.  Nor would my network.  Even my music setup had problems.
It ended up taking a full day to update most of it and get everything working again &#8212; the way it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/08/06/the-incredible-cost-of-updates/</link>
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		<title>How to Make Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months I&#8217;ve started learning about, and tasting lots of different international teas.  I was inspired by Kevin Rose, from Digg.com who has been talking about tea a lot online.
Tea is pretty awesome &#8211; it has no calories, doesn&#8217;t contain much caffeine, is cheap, tastes good and when you&#8217;re ready for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/05/01/how-to-make-tea/</link>
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		<title>Guaranteed Immigration to Canada!</title>
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This ad was published in a small local newspaper (Pereira) in Colombia on 25 July 1998.  The entire newspaper was in spanish except for this advertisement.  I am sure all Canadians are very proud.
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		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2009/01/15/guaranteed-immigration-to-canada/</link>
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		<title>Domincan GPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I admit it.  I have zero sense of direction..  I&#8217;ve no idea how it happened, I even competed in orienteering when I was younger (competitive map based running through the bush in Australia).  Anyways, today I&#8217;m an expert in getting lost.
Since I recently moved to Santo Domingo, I don&#8217;t know my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/12/22/domincan-gps/</link>
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		<title>Moving, Dominican Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To read this week&#8217;s interview on how a small company can leverage the legal power of the US Government to compete, go here: http://meetinnovators.com/2008/12/18/renata-hesse-from-wsgr/
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I&#8217;ve always moved around a lot.  The longest I&#8217;ve stayed in one country since 1990 until now has been 3 years.  Now I&#8217;m moving from a city I&#8217;ve lived in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/12/16/moving-dominican-style/</link>
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		<title>A Breakthrough &#8211; Airport Express Music Throughout My House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed that 2-3 times a year I get an absolutely major breakthrough and it has a huge benefit to my life somehow.  I’ve just hit one of those and want to share it with you.
Imagine if you had your perfect audio management system – one which would let you control it from every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/11/03/a-breakthrough-my-new-home-audio-system/</link>
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		<title>How to Learn Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I began studying project management. It was one of the things which has most helped me out in working online. It turns out there are huge similarities between how we work online and what professional project management teaches. But most people who work online do it in an unorganized, unstructured manner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/10/23/how-to-learn-project-management/</link>
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		<title>3rd World Business Incubator?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my interviews at http://MeetInnovators.com, one of the interesting patterns from talking with highly successful entrepreneurs I’ve learned is that business incubators do work – in a certain way. Generally big incubators like idealab haven’t worked well, because all the separate companies end up being run by generally unmotivated employees.
Where incubators do seem to work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/09/22/3rd-world-business-incubator/</link>
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		<title>How I Safely Visited Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t yet seen my main haiti pics, take a look here first:
http://photos.adrianbye.com/Americas/Haiti-Cap-Haitian-August-2008/5796339_AaKfS
Before I start, I’d like to note that Haiti is not a safe place to visit right now and if you’re considering this to take real care.  From the US Government website:
“This Travel Warning is being issued to advise American citizens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/08/27/how-i-safely-visited-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Branding and Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the rules of branding is to be the first in the mind. We always tend to remember the first important event – eg the first man on the moon (do you even remember who was second!?!?), the first person to fly across the atlantic, even your first kiss.. right?
Or just think about what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/08/21/branding-and-obama/</link>
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		<title>Why Most Libertarians Are Missing the Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a fascinating paper about &#8220;seasteading&#8220;.  This is the concept of creating towers of small communities designed live on the sea, a little like oil platforms.  The ideas is that once these small communities evolve, if the members of the communities disagree with governmental policies, they can just take their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/07/26/why-most-libertarians-are-missing-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Who Are the Facebook Early Adopters?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered who the really early adopters are?  Here&#8217;s an anecdotal, probably inaccurate, but interesting methodology.
I was testing today to see if I could export my friends data from facebook.  I found a facebook app called FriendsCSV which exports your friend data into a CSV file.  (I was hoping to get my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/07/25/who-are-the-facebook-early-adopters/</link>
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		<title>Will Ebay Matter in 5 Years?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ebay is on a slippery downward slope and will become irrelevant if they are not careful.  &#8220;super CEO&#8221; Meg Whitman hasn&#8217;t been able to solve their problems and whoever their new CEO is, they haven&#8217;t done much of a job either. (I don&#8217;t have much respect for Meg, I think she was just coasting on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/05/09/ebay-in-5-years/</link>
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		<title>FTC and Email Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spoke with someone who used to work at the FTC and knows a bit about email marketing and the FTC side of things.  I continue to be annoyed that it is legal to resell email addresses.
An example:  you can sign up to my list on the top right corner.  If I include in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/02/28/ftc-and-email-marketing/</link>
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		<title>About &#8220;Geniuses&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past month two people have spoken to me about someone being a &#34;genius&#34;.&#160; They referred to the (different people ) as being&#160;simply better than other people.&#160; They spoke about them almost with a sense of awe.
With all the interviews I do on meetinnovators.com, I am exposed to smart &#34;genius-like&#34;&#160;people very frequently (we do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/02/10/about-geniuses/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Weiss says you need 3 things to succeed in business:
- be competent in the market
- for there to be a market need
- be passionate about the market
I think these three things are critical.  When I talk with entrepreneurs who are having problems, invariably one or two of these are missing.  And when I look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/01/31/thoughts-on-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<title>Shoplet.com Spamming to Amazon&#8217;s List?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got an email sent by a company I never heard of before called &#8220;shoplet.com&#8221;.  And it was sent to an email address I never have used *anywhere* before except with Amazon.com.  They have my first name, last name and email address (that I only registered with Amazon).
So is Amazon selling their customer list to third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/01/24/shopletcom-spamming-to-amazons-list/</link>
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		<title>Is It Safe to Live in Medellin, Colombia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the book &#34;Killing Pablo&#34; by Mark Bowden.&#160; Its the story of the hunt to take down Pablo Escobar, the Colombian druglord who was listed as the #10 most wealthy person in the world by Forbes magazine.&#160; The book is an exciting read.
I was a bit astounded by the amount of violence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2008/01/06/is-it-safe-to-live-in-medellin-colombia/</link>
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		<title>Innovating at MeetInnovators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MeetInnovators was used as an example at the Great Ideas Conference in Florida a week ago.  David Gammel, a leading consultant to the associations market was talking about different associations being created on the internet, and we were one of his examples, along with a screenshot.  I hadn&#8217;t really thought of MeetInnovators that way, so its nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/12/12/meetinnovators-is-an-innovator/</link>
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		<title>How Gmail and Other Services Can Reduce False Spam Positives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever had important mail dropped in the spam folder?
Its annoying, isn&#8217;t it.
My mail has normally recieved 70-80 spams/day.  In the last 2 weeks its increased to 500-1000/day.   I used to be able to filter these by hand, I no longer can do it.  This means if a mail accidently goes into my spam folder I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/11/14/how-gmail-and-other-services-can-reduce-false-spam-positives/</link>
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		<title>Who will Rule the World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Scott Rewick made a very interesting comment to me last week at the conference we were at in Los Angeles.  He said that things are changing on the internet.  In the past the more aggressive internet guys “ruled the world”.  And now things are changing, and in future guys like Frank Addante and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/10/19/who-will-rule-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Get Altitude Conference with Eben Pagan and Nordine Zouareg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last week I went to an awesome conference http://getaltitude.com/ run by my friend Eben Pagan.  It was internet marketing training, but far beyond what is currently on offer; Eben is very sophisticated in his thinking and shared a lot of his brilliance with the attendees.
He also had some very interesting attendees.  You can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/10/19/get-altitude/</link>
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		<title>Why Most of the CPA/Brokerage Industry Will Not be Around in 5 Years.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people currently involved in the CPA industry feel that this industry is rock solid and not likely to change anytime soon. They may be in for a shock. There are developments coming from technological, business and legal areas which are going to have huge ramifications on the industry. One of those just happened.
Specifically I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/10/03/why-most-of-the-cpabrokerage-industry-will-not-be-around-in-5-years/</link>
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		<title>Cat Empire &#8211; My New Favourite Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While my brother was here, he introduced me to this band from Australia called &#8220;Cat Empire&#8221;.  Its an awesome combination of australian pub rock, latin (they actually recorded one of their albums in Cuba!) and a bunch of other genres.  They&#8217;re just a bunch of 22 year old guys from Melbourne, but have been doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/26/cat-empire-my-new-favourite-band/</link>
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		<title>Be a Round Peg in a Round Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of the children&#8217;s author &#8220;Enid Blyton&#8221;?  Most people in english commonwealth countries have, and growing up in Australia I read tons of her books.  They were all very exciting, and some of you will probably laugh reading me talking about her here.
I recently found that there&#8217;s an updated biography published about her life.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/25/be-a-round-peg-in-a-round-hole/</link>
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		<title>The Real Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of the DVD called &#8220;The Secret&#8221;?
Its a self-help/development movie which talks about the &#8220;secret&#8221; to building wealth.  Oprah is a huge fan, among many others, and its selling very well.  In the end its an updated version of Napoleon Hill&#8217;s &#8220;Think And Grow Rich&#8221;.  The basic idea they express is that you should focus your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/23/the-real-secret/</link>
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		<title>Australia Party This Friday!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re having an Australia party this Friday, here in the Dominican Republic.  Of course, you&#8217;re invited!
 
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		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/20/australia-party-this-friday/</link>
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		<title>The Magic of Using an Outliner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year I find a couple of things that make a major breakthrough to how I work.  One of those this year was discovering a type of application called an &#8220;outliner&#8221;.
An outliner is a very simple program for handling lists.  Ever used Microsoft Word in outline mode?  Thats where you can indent a bunch of ideas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/19/the-magic-of-using-an-outliner/</link>
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		<title>Break Complicated Tasks Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second major breakthrough in productivity I learned is that if you&#8217;re stalling or not getting a task done, the reason is that its probably too complex.  If you take a couple of steps back, and break it into a a checklist of pieces, it suddenly becomes easy to make progress.  Again, the key outcome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/17/break-complicated-tasks-down/</link>
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		<title>Do More by Doing Less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was talking with one of my developers, who has been a bit erratic in his work lately.  He&#8217;s been vanishing for days at a time, not getting things done.  After talking with him, it became clear the issue was one of motivation.. And how he sometimes completely loses motivation to work.
This has happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/09/15/do-more-by-doing-less/</link>
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		<title>How to Use Google without Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a URL to use google&#8217;s search without ads (or other stuff, such as news results):
 http://www.google.com/search?output=googleabout
I compared the search results to the normal google and they&#8217;re the same.   Pretty interesting, I haven&#8217;t seen google that way for a long time.  I bet this doesn&#8217;t last for long.
 I found out about it here: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/secret-google-search-url-that-removes.html
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		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/05/20/how-to-use-google-without-ads/</link>
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		<title>Why I Firmly Disagree with the System in Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From visiting Cuba recently, I realized when I returned that I was so in disagreement with their system and policies that I would likely be a guerilla, fighting for a new political system, much the same as Fidel Castro did 50 years ago.  Except I would be fighting for democratic freedom AGAINST Castro.  It would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/05/15/why-i-firmly-disagree-with-the-system-in-cuba/</link>
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		<title>Things Worth Visiting in Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cuba is an interesting place.&#160; For the last 50 years it has been a socialist country.&#160; Due to its proximity and relationship to the US, it is a very controversial place. Here are some things I found to be interesting about cuba.
Educational system
The education system in Cuba is good relative to other Latin countries.&#160; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/05/14/things-worth-visiting-in-cuba/</link>
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		<title>How Twitter Can Help Overthrow Dictatorships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After risking imprisonment in Cuba last week for writing about their political system directly from Havana via Twitter, I have a few thoughts on how Twitter can be used to bring democracy to non free countries such as Cuba.
Firstly, if you’d like to see why I was in Cuba, visit here:  http://www.adrianbye.com/2007/05/04/twittering-from-cuba
You can also see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/05/13/how-twitter-can-help-overthrow-dictatorships/</link>
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		<title>Twittering from Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,
I&#8217;m currently on vacation in Cuba.  A lot of people have expressed interest in hearing about this trip &#8211; but I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have any access to the outside world while I am here. Well things have changed and now I even have my treo cellphone activated with text messaging!
Internet access is difficult, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/05/04/twittering-from-cuba/</link>
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		<title>Are You Measuring Your Business Accurately?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John D Rockefeller knew a lot about how his business operated
Back in the late 1800’s John D Rockefeller knew a lot about how Standard Oil operated.  Rockefeller was trained as a bookkeeper, so monitoring numbers came easily to him.  One of the more famous stories from Rockefeller is about how he once asked the guys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/04/19/are-you-measuring-your-business-accurately/</link>
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		<title>How to Make More Money with Your List Using Behavioral Targeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard for years about behavioral targeting for the web and how its going to work.. but never quite does..  Well, some of the techniques being used in this kind of targeting for web inventory can also be used for email – and they work quite a bit better.
How it works
Basically we need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/04/12/how-to-make-more-money-with-your-list-using-behavioral-targeting/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from One of the Most Competitive Markets on the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most competitive markets on the Internet for a low cost, general interest product is the government grants information market. It’s filled with people looking for free money from the government, and the level of marketing is limited only by the FTC. This is an offer that performs incredibly well and generates very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/04/05/lessons-from-competitive-markets/</link>
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		<title>Does Small Business Rule?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mid 1800’s John D Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, which later became the foundation for almost the entire oil industry.  He created the first real national corporation, and later, the first international corporation.  There were no laws for setting this up back then, so they had to deal with a lot of complexity and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2007/03/29/does-small-business-rule/</link>
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		<title>Interview on Dominican Radio Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did an interview on Santiago radio station Alcatraz FM, 90.9.  The interview is 30 minutes long, in spanish.

Learn about how the internet is perceived in the Caribbean, its quite different to the rest of the world.   
You can listen to it here:
 http://adrianbye.com/moreinfo/alcatraz.mp3
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		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2006/11/06/dr-radio-station-interview/</link>
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		<title>Clear Channel Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently did an interview on Clear Channel syndicated radio in the US with Craig Peterson.

This was broadcast in 3 US markets on the east coast.
 You can listen to it here:
 http://adrianbye.com/moreinfo/clearchannel.mp3
For more on Craig Peterson’s radio show, visit here: 
 http://www.tech-talk-with-craig-peterson.com
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		<link>http://adrianbye.com/2006/10/15/clear-channel-interview/</link>
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