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		<title>My Story for 2009: lessons learned from eight months living and working as a business consultant in Vietnam.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m coming back to California after working in Vietnam as a business consultant for the last eight months, and I thought I would use the transition as an opportunity to keep in touch, and share what I&#8217;ve learned.
This is the consolidated story of my experience. Why I went to Vietnam, what I did there, and [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging is a tenuous relationship. It requires a regular and ongoing commitment from both the writer and the reader. (You and me &#8211; the blogger and the bloggee.)
Work&#8217;s been slow. Lately I haven&#8217;t been doing much of what I&#8217;ve been calling entrepreneurial travel, and the blog reflects that.  I&#8217;ve decided to wrap things up here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurship within a firm, and my wasted Friday morning.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been really interesting to work on an entrepreneurial project within an existing firm.
In a lot of ways it&#8217;s great. From day one you already have a fax machine, an established brand, and a pay check. You get to skip all the mundane work of actually setting up a new business entity. You have whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much news has made me crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day I wake up at around 7:15am, get dressed, bike to work, and spend the first hour of my day reading the news.
I read the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and about a billion other miscellaneous business, economics, and entrepreneurship related publications, news aggregators, and blogs. I also have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preeko.com/wordpress/?p=821</link>
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		<title>A lesson learned from job hunting: not being useless.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to tell people exactly what you can do for them.
A couple of times during my informal networking style job hunt I had meetings with people who were in a position to potentially hire me.
I got these meetings by putting myself out there, networking with as many businessy people as I could, making a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been off the blog for a few weeks as I&#8217;ve been adjusting to working full time and finally finishing this business plan consulting project which has been eating up my free time.
So here&#8217;s an update:
After a lot of powerpointing we got our division approved. My two partners and I are now officially a strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hippies and absurd water bottle marketing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People are often confused or offended when I use the word hippie.
Some people either think the term is derogatory, or they think that hippies were something that only existed in the 60s, and that you can&#8217;t be a hippie today any more than you can be a flapper. These people haven&#8217;t spent enough time on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obscure Sports and Global Branding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam completely shuts down for the week of lunar New Year (we usually call it Chinese new year, the Vietnamese call it “Tet”). Everyone gets the week off to go visit their families. All shops close, all commerce stops, the streets are empty. So a friend and I went on a quick trip over to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employment at last, alas.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it worked.
I finally got a job.

I am the new co-director of a currently non-existent strategic consulting division at a major Vietnamese finance firm. I have a desk, my own phone extension, a new bank account with Military Bank, an extended work visa, and one week to finish a presentation of my initial financial and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preeko.com/wordpress/?p=572</link>
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		<title>Writing about a book about writing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who has always been excellent at expressing complex ideas clearly. He has a background in business and politics, loves to argue about history and philosophy, and at the time I knew him he was writing the dissertation for his doctorate in ethnomusicology. A really out there guy, but smart as hell.
When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preeko.com/wordpress/?p=553</link>
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