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	<title>Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli &#187; Entrepreneurship &amp; Startups</title>
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	<description>On building profitable web applications</description>
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		<title>Tasks a virtual assistant can do for an online entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2012/tasks-a-virtual-assistant-can-do-for-an-online-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual assistants are all the rage these days. Since Tim Ferriss democratized the concept with his book “Four Hour Work Week”, virtual assistants have become increasingly popular. And yet, many founders still don’t outsource. The reason why people don&#8217;t outsource after the fear for poor quality is that they don&#8217;t know what to outsource. Yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 deadly sins of outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is getting more and more popular and has evolved a lot but people keep associating it with poor quality or frustrating calls with a customer support guy with a thick accent from halfway around the world. Outsourcing is a skill that can be learned. Below are the deadly outsourcing sins that business owners commit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making changes based on data: fixing our registration process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I have added the results of my changes at the end of the article I am currently working on Goalstribe a group coaching website and this month we are trying to prove we can sell groups via online marketing channels. After bringing sufficient traffic from Google AdWords, Bing and Facebook Ads, we haven’t managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>oDesk hurt by the Google Panda update</title>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/odesk-hurt-by-the-google-panda-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[oDesk is an online outsourcing marketplace. SEO is one of the main marketing channels they use to drive traffic to their sites (like their competitors). The Google Panda update  was targeted at reducing low quality search results on Google. It looks like oDesk has been badly hurt by this update: UPDATE: Although Elance wasn&#8217;t hurt as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing in startups: How I work with my remote developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous blog post, I explained why I outsource the development of my startup and this post I would like to explain how we work together. Task management I started with using podio.com to manage the work to do with my team. Podio is an impressive (and free) web application that has in-app applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I spent the first 8 months developing the website myself until I proved to myself that my idea was a viable business idea. I was then ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is why you need to submit a sitemap to Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<title>TaskArmy.com &#8211; Pitch Deck for SydStart 2011</title>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/taskarmy-com-pitch-deck-for-sydstart-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/taskarmy-com-pitch-deck-for-sydstart-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the slides I have used for my pitch at SydStart 2011, please let me know what you think of the content, thanks! Thanks to Pollenizer for sharing their universal pitch deck template!]]></description>
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		<title>Landing page improvements: a case study</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I signed up for a website called FeedbackRoulette.com where you can review other people’s websites and they review yours in exchange. After doing a few reviews for other guys (especially liked LuckyOrange) I started receiving feedback for TaskArmy, my service marketplace website. Although all of them liked the idea, they mentioned the busyness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s learning: Strip your registration page to the essential</title>
		<link>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/todays-learning-strip-your-registration-page-to-the-essential-2/</link>
		<comments>http://aymeric.gaurat.net/2011/todays-learning-strip-your-registration-page-to-the-essential-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aymeric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship & Startups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online experiments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot of articles each day, most of them related to entrepreneurship and tech startups. Recently on Hacker News, someone mentioned that instead of reading that much, I should try to write about the articles I read. I’d read less but I’d retain more. So I asked myself today, what have I learned [...]]]></description>
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