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		<title>Social Media, Information Cocoons and Weak Ties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all have close friends and family members with whom we spend a lot of time. We spend a lot of time with them because we have a lot of affinity with them. We think in the same way and we have the same interests as them. Incidentally, they are the people in whom we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offshoring Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many argue that while manufacturing jobs have been offshored from advanced economies to cheaper destinations, high-skill jobs on the other hand are still very much in demand. In other words, advanced economies are switching resources from the manufacturing sectors to the high technology sector. In order to make sure of whether such statements are true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convergence and the Poor State of Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media is supposed to be more than a bunch of people sharing picture about their last night drinking spree. Social media (ex: Facebook, Twitter) is also supposed to be an alternative source of information to traditional media (ex: CNN, FOX). User generated content means that information is no longer created by institutions, but by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Technology Performs in Recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are people who doubt about the importance of technology in our society. Especially when a recession is going on, we always tend to think that basic goods such as food and gas are more in demand because people are budget constrained and have to focus on whats important. Well lets take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Group Buying Bring Value to Consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can group buying services provide real value to consumers? I&#8217;m a bit skeptical about this. Retailing 101 Retailers make money by buying large quantities of an item and by selling each unit individually at a higher price. The general principle behind this is that of economies of scale: the more we build of something, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurship: Why There is a Lack of Intent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon an article about Canadian entrepreneurial intentions, and a few things stroke me. Let&#8217;s take a look at the following table: Besides the difference between provinces, the proportion of those who start a company versus those who have the intention is constant between provinces. More or less, only half of those who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 HEC-UdeM-POLY Entrepreneurship Contest Reception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very enjoyable evening: Singular Technologies had the honor of being among winning startups for the 2010 edition of HEC-UdeM-POLY Entrepreneurship Contest. Other than enjoying the great company of Atefeh Farzindar from NLP Technologies, I had the honor of receiving the prize from Marcel Messier, the President of Technomedia. It was a great evening after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Web 2.0: Harnessing Collective Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This McKinsey study, surveys about how businesses are using the Web 2.0 as tools to increase their productivity. As it can be shown in the figure below, web services are widely adopted throughout the industry.  However, an interesting finding of the survey is the importance of tools design to support the collective intelligence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tweet Watch Made it to the Final Round of entrepreneurship contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more enjoyable than reward after hard work. Our portfolio project, The Tweet Watch, has been selected for the final round of the HEC-POLY-UdeM Entrepreneurship Contest. The great thing with this contest is that each team gets assigned to a startup coach. Coaches are very involved and well connected in the Montreal startup community. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P Performance Againt NASDAQ: Technology is Good!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most traumatizing experiences for many people was the 2000 Internet bubble burst. Savings were lost and might never be recovered. Since then, everything technology is looked at with suspicious eyes. When entrepreneurs boast for high rates of return, it is almost perceived as attempted robbery. I wondered how rational these reactions towards [...]]]></description>
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