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	<title>George Favvas</title>
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		<title>Are Canada&#8217;s tax incentives causing startups more harm than good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still not sure if it&#8217;s a safety harness, a leach or a noose. - Montreal-based entrepreneur The person above, who didn&#8217;t want to be named, is referring to one of the government programs that fund R&#38;D activity in Canada. Programs with alphabet soup names like SR&#38;ED and IRAP can repay up to 85% of your]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2010/11/12/sred-irap-are-canadas-tax-incentives-causing-startups-more-harm-than-good/</link>
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		<title>Traffic hacks: Growing your user base at someone else&#8217;s expense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most startup entrepreneurs are obsessed &#8211; rightly so &#8211; with figuring out the magic formula to get their product to go viral. But few are able to launch a product which goes viral completely on its own. Very often, successful products early on have gotten a boost by latching onto another company with more users,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2010/07/15/traffic-hacks-growing-your-user-base-at-someone-elses-expense/</link>
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		<title>Slow money comes to San Francisco with Bernal Bucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard about slow food, but what about slow money? Slow money is exactly what Arno Hesse hopes to bring to his Bernal Heights, San Francisco neighborhood with Bernal Bucks. The goal behind Bernal Bucks is simple: More money circulates locally when spent at locally owned businesses, which in turns contributes to the local economy. Here&#8217;s]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2010/04/09/slow-money-comes-to-san-francisco-with-bernal-bucks/</link>
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		<title>How to set up an advisory board for your startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have an awesome advisory board at SmartHippo and I often get asked how we set it up and how we leverage the people on it. If you run a startup, particularly if you&#8217;re early stage, a good advisory board can be one of the best investments you can make. Here are some tips on how]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2010/03/26/how-to-set-up-an-advisory-board-for-your-startup/</link>
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		<title>Startup Camp Montreal 6 set for May 6th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sixth edition of Startup Camp Montreal is set for May 6th. The event features five startup pitches. The selected startups pay nothing to present, and also get a free coaching session where they get feedback and suggested improvements on their pitch. Quality in the past has been excellent with startups from Montreal, Toronto, New]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2010/03/24/startup-camp-montreal-6-set-for-may-6th/</link>
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		<title>Blogworld Expo 2008 Best of the Tradeshow Floor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this from Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, where I was on a Reblogworld panel yesterday talking about SmartHippo. As i write this, the tradeshow floor here at Blogworld has been open for a little over an hour. I&#8217;ve made the rounds of the various booths and come up with my]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2008/09/20/blogworld-expo-2008-best-of-the-tradeshow-floor/</link>
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		<title>Video interview with Stuart MacDonald of Tripharbour.com &#8211; Founders and Funders part 2 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second installment in a series of video recaps of the second Founders and Funders event in Toronto. In part one, we talked with one of the organizers. In this second installment, we talk to one of the entrepreneurs who was at the event. Stuart MacDonald is the founder of Tripharbor.com (Tripharbour.ca for]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2008/06/19/video-interview-with-stuart-macdonald-of-tripharbourcom-founders-and-funders-part-2-of-3/</link>
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		<title>Founders and Funders Toronto video recap (Part 1 of 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second Toronto edition of Founders and Funders event took place last week, on June 4th. The event is organized by David Crow and Jevon McDonald. Rather than write up a big long report, I decided to continue my experiments with video by bringing a camera along to give people who did not have the]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2008/06/11/founders-and-funders-toronto-video-recap-part-1-of-3/</link>
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		<title>Lending Club Puts the Breaks on Social Lending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In February, I blogged about how Canadian P2P lender IOU Central had suspended activity while they sorted out regulatory concerns. (They&#8217;re still not back up.) Now, it looks like it may be Lending Club&#8216;s turn in the US. According to a notice posted on their site, they have stopped allowing their lenders to initiate loans]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2008/04/08/lending-club-puts-the-breaks-on-social-lending/</link>
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		<title>Lost in the Mail: HSBC Loses Disk With Personal Data on 370,000 Insurance Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this Bloomberg report, HSBC, Europe&#8217;s biggest bank, mailed a disk containing personal information from one city to another. But it didn&#8217;t make it there. And the data on it was not encrypted. The disk, sent unregistered to Swiss Reinsurance Co., contained password-protected details including customers&#8217; names, life-insurance cover levels, birthdates and smoking status,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.favvas.com/2008/04/07/lost-in-the-mail-hsbc-loses-disk-with-personal-data-on-370000-insurance-customers/</link>
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