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		<title>The Geometry of Startup Valuations.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I frequently find that I have to explain to candidates joining Cloudera (and existing employees) how not to be overly concerned about dilution of their percent ownership when a company is experiencing strong growth. Towards that end I created the chart below to illustrate how percent ownership is just a small part of the total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2011/11/15/the-geometry-of-startup-valuations/</link>
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		<title>Please help Egypt eliminate the Wall of Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[There is a call to action at end of this post, please skip to it directly if you don’t have time to read] First, I would like to start by thanking all my dear US friends for the flood of messages asking me how things are going. My mom/dad are ok, they are both 65+ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2011/02/06/please-help-egypt-eliminate-the-wall-of-fear/</link>
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		<title>Back to Netflix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two years ago I wrote about switching from Netflix to Blockbuster, well, now I am switching back to Netflix. The reasons for the reversal: Netflix now streams movies to my PC (in home office), Xbox 360 (in living room), and PS3 (in bedroom) . I only ask that they expand the online streaming selection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2009/12/29/back-to-netflix/</link>
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		<title>Last chance to signup for Hadoop World [Discount Code]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty much your last chance to signup for Hadoop World, it is happening this Friday (Oct 2nd) in Newyork City. The registration prices are higher now since these are the last few days, but if you are interested in going then shoot me an email, I have a special deep discount code for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2009/09/29/last-chance-to-signup-for-hadoop-world-discount-code/</link>
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		<title>The Essentiality Criterion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, I can&#8217;t believe it has been three months since I last blogged, all I can say is that a startup will suck the life out of you I still see many startups creating free online services and expecting them to generate hundreds of millions of dollars from advertising. I might be stating the obvious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2009/04/30/the-essentiality-criterion/</link>
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		<title>Diagnosoft raises $4M and hires Firas BenAchour as CEO &amp; President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seed funded a company called Diagnosoft a few years back, mainly because one of the cofounders (Nael Osman) is a life-long friend of mine, but also because the technology was very intriguing and came across as something that could save my life one day In layman terms, Diagnosoft develops a program that analyzes cardiac [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2009/01/29/diagnosoft-raises-4m-and-hires-firas-benachour-as-ceo-president/</link>
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		<title>My Hajj (Pilgrimage)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the most amazing trip in my life, it was two weeks with my wife in Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj (Pilgrimage). Many of my American friends asked me about the trip and what it entailed, this blog posting tries to summarize that. First, the Hajj is the fifth and final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2008/12/19/my-hajj-pilgrimage/</link>
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		<title>What happened to Obama&#8217;s brother in Cairo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, congratulations to the US and the world for Obama becoming the 44th president of the USA. A few months back an Egyptian columnist, Ibrahim Eissa, wrote a hilarious column depicting a hypothetical scenario in which Hussein Obama stopped by Cairo before going to the US. In that scenario he married an Egyptian girl and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2008/11/05/what-happened-to-obamas-brother-in-cairo/</link>
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		<title>Twitter mentions also predict an Obama win.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my previous post regarding Facebook lexicon predicting an Obama win, the mentions for Obama in Twitter also extremely outrank McCain (this comes from a service called Twist which monitors Twitter mentions): Go Obama &#8211; amr]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2008/11/04/twitter-mentions-also-predict-an-obama-win/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Lexicon Predicts Obama Win.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook Lexicon is a very nifty tool which analyzes the frequency and associations of words in Facebook wall messages for profiles, events, and groups. The first graph below shows that Obama is mentioned significantly more frequently than Mccain, and, more importantly, the second graph shows that the mentions for Obama have more positive sentiment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.awadallah.com/blog/2008/11/02/facebook-lexicon-predicts-obama-win/</link>
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